Quotes About Watercolors

#1. It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.

Tony Curtis

#2. After a thousand watercolors you will find you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

Rex Brandt

#3. These vignettes I sketch for you - what are they? watercolors ..yes and dreams blurred with tears ...

John Geddes

#4. I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

Egon Schiele

#5. My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.

Matthew Modine

#6. Mrs. Erskine struck him as fierce and plain and haughty as one of those straight-backed red-haired girl-women in certain of the watercolors of Winslow Homer.

Joyce Carol Oates

#7. My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.

John James Audubon

#8. It was a great test of my ability to work with ... watercolors. And it was also a test of my patience; I needed to put myself in a completely disciplined position ... I couldn't make mistakes.

Liu Dan

#9. I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.

Stephen Chbosky

#10. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

Joan Didion

#11. He tried to reconstruct the story in his mind, but it kept getting confused, bleeding into itself like watercolors.

Catherynne M Valente

#12. The much-lauded visual artist Roni Horn got her Master's in Sculpture from Yale in the Seventies, but in the course of her career she has moved, among other media, from watercolors to photographs to floor-sized installations and mats of poured gold.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#13. Ten watercolors were made from that star.

Joan Didion

#14. You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors.

Winslow Homer

#15. And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.

Andrew Wyeth

#16. But I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica. My

Stephen Chbosky

#17. DeFrees, a dealer in nineteenth-century watercolors who for all her stiff clothes and strong perfumes was a hugger and a cuddler, with the old-ladyish habit of liking

Donna Tartt

#18. I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love to mess around with these tools and objects, I have minimal artistic skills.

Sharon Creech

#19. The good watercolors take a lifetime - plus a half an hour.

Toni Onley

#20. What distinguishes a mathematical model from, say, a poem, a song, a portrait or any other kind of "model," is that the mathematical model is an image or picture of reality painted with logical symbols instead of with words, sounds or watercolors.

John L. Casti

#21. My sister and I did not have our own rooms, or even a place to ourselves. In the living room, beyond the two windows, was a little corner where my books were kept, and other thing - my watercolors and so on. Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise.

Gunter Grass

#22. I've been very influenced by Inuit art especially some drawings and watercolors I've seen.

Marcel Dzama

#23. I do tend to use watercolors - I love the splatter sort of thing you can do with watercolors.

Mini Grey

#24. Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.

Willem De Kooning

#25. Yes, she'd made a mistake ... but she wasn't going to be bullied. You couldn't let boys go around raining on your lava and ogling other people's watercolors.

Terry Pratchett

#26. I paint daily with watercolors on 5-by-7-inch pads that are small enough for me to take them everywhere.

Steven Holl

#27. I spend a lot of time doing watercolors and playing music in my apartment.

Lola Kirke

#28. And men who accept the burdens of regret, whether in respect of watercolors or of anything else, are not the stuff that men of the world are made of.

Soseki Natsume

#29. How many people have stopped playing guitar, writing poetry, or painting watercolors - activities packed with flow triggers - because these are also activities that do not squarely fit into culturally acceptable responsibility categories like "career" or "children"?

Steven Kotler

#30. She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.

Barbara Cooney

#31. For me making a digital photo is like making a watercolor ... It's not a painting, and it's not a photo. It's something altogether new.

Art Wolfe