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Art Quotes

To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art.

— Hans Hoffman

Eliminate the unnecessary so the necessary may speak.

— Hans Hoffman

Abstract art should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed – after a while you may like it or you may not.

— Jackson Pollock

So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.

— Philip Johnson

Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.

— Anton Ehrenzweig

With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.

— Henri Matisse

Drawing is of the spirit; color is of the senses.

— Henri Matisse

Seek the strongest color effect possible… the content is of no importance.

— Henri Matisse

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

— Henri Matisse

A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.

— Henri Matisse

Cutting directly into color reminds me of a sculptor’s carving into stone.

— Henri Matisse

Reality has to be digested, it has to be transmuted by paint. It has to be given a twist of some kind.

— Richard Diebenkorn

It is not a matter of painting life. It’s a matter of giving life to a painting.

— Richard Diebenkorn

Be bold!

— Barbara Fugate

What’s so funny about peace love and understanding?

— Nick Lowe

Most of these were gathered at Art Quotes by Painter’s Keys. Do you have a favorite art quote? Please use my contact form to share it with me.

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Cropped to a square is an improvement (image 1). T Cropped to a square is an improvement (image 1). This is the painting shown in previous tape peeling reel post. The exercise is to use linear overlapping shapes (image 3) to jumpstart an abstract oil painting, from the Exploring Abstraction course by Jenny Nelson. None of the original marks are visible btw. 🤓🤷‍♀️
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Static images of the painting exercise shown in ye Static images of the painting exercise shown in yesterday’s reel. 
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Now we’re cookin’! 👩‍🍳 This is a new e Now we’re cookin’! 👩‍🍳 This is a new exercise using linear overlapping shapes to jumpstart an abstract oil painting (image 2 ➡️, details 3 & 4 ➡️). Mixed up a specified harmonious palette and added some juicy R&F oil sticks. I’m getting the push I wanted to move my digital abstract work into real world materials. Thanks to the Exploring Abstraction course by Jenny Nelson @nelsonpainter - I’m jazzed! 🤗
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4/4 monochrome oil paint on canvas paper exercise, 4/4 monochrome oil paint on canvas paper exercise, using collage as beginning reference (image 2 ➡️, detail 3 ➡️).
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3/4 monochrome oil paint on canvas paper exercise, 3/4 monochrome oil paint on canvas paper exercise, using collage as beginning reference (image 2 ➡️, detail 3 ➡️).
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Oil paint on canvas paper exercise 2/4, using coll Oil paint on canvas paper exercise 2/4, using collage as beginning reference (image 2 ➡️), and detail image 3. 
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Seek the strongest color effect possible… the content is of no importance.

— Henri Matisse

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