11 Days of Love
How do artists describe their love affair with art? Take a look!
1.
“I love red so much that I almost want to paint everything red.”
Alexander Calder
2.
“I hardly ever paint people unless I’m rather in love with them.”
— Sylvia Sleigh
3.
“Every picture shows a spot with which the artist himself has fallen in love.”
— Alfred Sisley
4.
“After a thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.”
— Rex Brandt
5.
“I think one’s art goes as far and as deep as one’s love goes.”
— Andrew Wyeth
6.
“I so love carving. It seems to me to be the most rhythmic and marvelous way of working on live, sensuous material.”
— Barbara Hepworth
7.
“It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman. He must love to caress his canvas, too.”
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
8.
“Throughout the time I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it.”
— Joan Miro
9.
“Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, ‘How do you do it’? But hopefully it is beautiful.”
— Francesco Clemente
10.
“When Vincent and I were together in Arles, both of us insane and constantly at war over beautiful colors, I adored red and he loved yellow.”
— Paul Gauguin
11.
“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.”
— Marc Chagall
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3.
“Every picture shows a spot with which the artist himself has fallen in love.”
— Alfred Sisley
5.
“I think one’s art goes as far and as deep as one’s love goes.”
— Andrew Wyeth
7.
“It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman. He must love to caress his canvas, too.”
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I am not a professional painter, nor have I painted that long, only started watercolor two years ago. I mostly draw with colored pencils. However, I’d have to say that I relate to these three wonderful statements. They convey what I would want to say. When drawing or painting from my heart, I feel connected to it, like I am crafting it to life like a sculpture. When I try to paint for someone else, I can feel the difference in connection. Thank you.