Top 27 Robert Bateman Quotes

#1. After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s, and I haven't changed my style since.

Robert Bateman

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#2. Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them.

Mark Lawrence

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#3. In almost every task involving form, there are dozens, often hundreds of contradictory elements, which need to be forced to work in harmony by man's will. This harmony can be acheived only through art.

Alvar Aalto

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#4. We? I asked.
Of course. I'm not leaving you alone on this, no matter what. You know I'd never abandon you.

Richelle Mead

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#5. You begin paying more attention to what you're seeing when you know the names ... If you don't know the names of plant and animal species that share your neighbourhood, you don't care about them and can't protect biodiversity.

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#6. Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm frustrated I put one down and begin another.

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#7. When you get to be my age, you begin to count how many Mays you have left - the best time of year for flowers and birds in North America.

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#8. If I ever have a conflict between art and nature, I let art win.

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#9. If you find yourself worrying, go outside, take three breaths, address a tree and quietly say, 'Thank you.' If you can't find a tree, a dandelion will do ... Nature is magic.

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#10. Children don't play outside enough. For hundreds of thousands of years young people spent time outside - until 15 years ago.

Robert Bateman

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#11. The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.

Paul Watzlawick

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#12. The most important question facing the planet is: Is it worth it?

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#13. A muse comes down from Mount Olympus and changes my attitude, cheering me up - it's an inner intuition, suddenly giving a breakthrough to be able to move ahead.

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#14. People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life. My

Sue Monk Kidd

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#15. I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became a geography teacher so that I could get free field trips into the wilderness to paint.

Robert Bateman

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#16. In our instant pudding world, everything is sweet, smooth, very convenient and fast. There are lots of assorted flavors, but they're all artificial.

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#17. To me the most important thing in a piece of art is the thought. Technique is totally secondary.

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#18. It doesn't take more skill to paint hundreds of strokes rather than one right stroke but it takes more patience.

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#19. I prefer to hike in nature, give lectures, or be with family when not working.

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#20. My art collection is dominated by tribal art from Nigeria where I taught school, from New Guinea where we've travelled, and by Canadian Haida pieces. My own art is either on exhibition or owned by other people!

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#21. Happy, normal lives going on in happy, normal ways, in a works that was anything but. Once you realize this, experienced something that made it crystal clear, you couldn't forget it. Like a face. Or a name. However you learn that truth, once it's with you, it never really goes away.

Sarah Dessen

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#22. Nature is not a free lunch, but we treat it as a free lunch.

Robert Bateman

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#23. Blackwater USA has already taken in more than $1 billion from the public coffers. All in all, that's not a bad take for Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater and a Naval Academy dropout who served less time under the colors of the nation, in uniform, than my most recent pair of boots.

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#24. I've never thought sitting around worrying helps anything, except to help shorten your life.

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#25. Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it's very important for the spirit and therefore the health.

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#26. I got serious about painting at 12, when most people give up.

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#27. In art and science we are now in a delta, at the end of the long flow of progress. In a delta there is no clear direction but there may be many choices. The best we can do is to enjoy the choices that we have and to be genuinely and creatively eclectic.

Robert Bateman

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