Bongart Sergei Quotes

#1. Never become an artist if you can't learn to draw.

Sergei Bongart

#2. Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill; All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill.

George Crabbe

#3. I was an older brother. So I had to do a lot of things first. My father was a self-made man, and he would beat me senseless. But he was a Scotsman, and stubborn. I'm his son, and I'm stubborn, too. I go on being stubborn.

Harry Hay

#4. Once you set out to copy another painter you can never be more than number two.

Sergei Bongart

#5. Art is more than a product of your efforts - it should be about feeling, life, attitude, soul.

Sergei Bongart

#6. Contrast warm to cool. Make color sing, ring like a bell. Work from big to small.

Sergei Bongart

#7. All students need to know about color is the basic color wheel and complimentary colors. There are many books on color theory; do not waste your time and money.

Sergei Bongart

#8. First trust your eyes ... then check by rules. Many times something else is happening, and the rules will not apply.

Sergei Bongart

#9. Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters.

Kenneth Rexroth

#10. There is no one just like you, and there never will be anyone just like you, so there's no reason not to be original.

Sergei Bongart

#11. each morning we're born again
of yesterday nothing remains
what's left began today

Anselm Hollo

#12. Most important ... develop your technical ability. You are handicapped if you do not develop well enough to hold the subconscious process so as not to have problems of inexperienced painters ...

Sergei Bongart

#13. My experience in Gujarat shows that howsoever big a problem might be, it is not insurmountable if we have the will to act.

Narendra Modi

#14. Practice like good musician; draw every day.

Sergei Bongart

#15. The less inhibited you are the better.

Sergei Bongart

#16. Watercolor is like life. Better get it right the first time
you don't get a second chance!

Sergei Bongart

#17. Grief was just the moment before you tied the thread and began the next one

Elizabeth Chadwick

#18. Such as thy words are such will thine affections be esteemed and such as thine affections will be thy deeds and such as thy deeds will be thy life ...

Socrates

#19. If you paint from 35mm Kodachrome, you end up with a 4x5 foot Kodachrome!

Sergei Bongart

#20. Learn technique; have full command to the extent of not being conscious of how it is done. When craftsmanship has been developed, you are free to create ... technique will give way to expression!

Sergei Bongart

#21. Knowing someday I would fall in love. Knowing one day I would have someone who could dazzle my mind, and enlighten my soul.

Ella Emerson

#22. The most horrible question students ask: 'How do you paint copper?' 'How do you paint flesh or glass?' You paint everything the same way: Right color, right value, in right spot. There are no prescriptions.

Sergei Bongart

#23. Always keep your best work.

Sergei Bongart

#24. Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.

Sergei Bongart

#25. Portland wasn't my home; Jamie was. There is nothing in this world that feels as good as being completely at home. Not even chocolate.

Catherine Gayle

#26. Personally, I read a lot of scripts.

David Yates

#27. Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.

Kenneth Grahame

#28. But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.

Paul Engle

#29. There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Michel De Montaigne

#30. The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father. And that was traumatic obviously for my father - he suffered a nervous breakdown at that time in his life.

Robert Carlyle