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I regularly post in the gallery and find it very encouraging when I receive comments. This week I posted a picture of a seal pup which I wasn't sure about and all the comments were very supportive, but two comments in particular were very constructive and I have since been able to improve my original. It made me wonder it people looking at the gallery realise just how helpful these comments are, coming from other artists who have probably faced these problems themselves and realise just how unsure of ourselves we are! Just felt I had to say it! Thank you.
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Here's one by James McNeill Whistler from his slander trial against Ruskin:
John Ruskin: "The labour of two days is that for which you ask two hundred guineas?" Whistler: "No. I ask it for the knowledge I have gained in the work of a lifetime."
Here are a few more from the great man:
"Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass."
"Mauve? Mauve is just pink trying to be purple."
"A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared."
"The imitator is a poor kind of creature. If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this."
-to a sitter's complaint that his portrait was not a great work of art...
"Perhaps not, but then you can't call yourself a great work of nature."
"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision."
A student tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock will come when you see what you paint!'
(Oh, sorry, I didn't see the list of options to vote for! Anyway I prefer these)
