Watercolour Quotes

#1. Paint me by numbers and colour me in watercolour half tones.

Truth Devour

#2. With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well.

David Hockney

#3. If I were a pattern, I would be the pattern of paint that a bird would make if you dipped a bird's wings in watercolour and then set the bird loose inside a paper lantern. I'm pretty sure that's it!

C. JoyBell C.

#4. With watercolour, you can pick up the atmosphere, the temperature, the sound of snow shifting through the trees or over the ice of a small pond or against a windowpane. Watercolour perfectly expresses the free side of my nature.

Andrew Wyeth

#5. Turner watercolour

Kathleen Tessaro

#6. Watercolour is not especially difficult, but I must warn you to steer clear of those pretty English watercolourists, so skilful and alas so weak, and so often too truthful.

Camille Pissarro

#7. On one wall there was a recent watercolour - Saint E.O. Wilson of Hymenoptera

Margaret Atwood

#8. Writing is like painting with watercolour, sometimes it's what you leave out at matters.

Haydn Jones

#9. There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously.

Nicolas Roeg

#10. What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.

Vincent Van Gogh

#11. Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the same degree of concentration in the studio, but not impossible.

Walter J. Phillips

#12. Watercolour is probably the most satisfying of all mediums. Although difficult in the beginning, after practice its mysteries will unfold, providing the utmost pleasure for the dedicated.

Robert A. Lovett

#13. Watercolour painting is notoriously difficult - so much depends on directness and speed, and certainty of intention. Tentative or fumbling touches are disastrous, for they cannot be obliterated easily.

Walter J. Phillips

#14. There is the process of enlarging a watercolour, which actually amounts to copying its good points and improving its bad ones, and is interesting proportionately as the latter increase.

Walter J. Phillips

#15. Clive Dunn, as I understand it, retired to the south of Spain, where he worked extensively in watercolours. I don't own any of Clive Dunn's watercolours. I loved him in 'Dad's Army,' loved him. But not enough to actually seek out his watercolour work.

Hugh Laurie

#16. Watercolour could have been used more by the modernists. It is so direct, and when the white paper convention is accepted, so powerful, even brutal, that it would seem an ideal medium.

David Milne

#17. It is remarkable how very individual technique becomes in watercolour. Every man of personality finally arrives at a method peculiarly his own, as unique as his own fingerprint.

Walter J. Phillips

#18. The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy, there are no benefits.

Mike Huckabee

#19. There's an expression, "God is in the details," and it applies to nothing more than it does to the writing of fiction. To that and to the art of telling good lies. And what is fiction but the telling of lies?

Donna Levin

#20. Divorce is just about change, you know. It's God saying, You need a change. And I'm going to make it so your bank account only has change.

Christopher Titus

#21. When I'm swinging well, nobody hits the golf ball any better than I do.

David Duval

#22. We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#23. I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

S.E. Hinton

#24. I have a message for the Divergent" I am Divergent. "This is not a negotiation" No, it is not. "It is a warning" I understand. "Every two days until one of you delivers yourself to Erudite headquarters ... " I will. " ... this will happen again" It will never happen again.

Veronica Roth

#25. It is cowardly to fly from natural duties and take up those that suit our taste or temperament better; but it is also unwise to take an exaggerated view of personal duties, which shuts out the proper care of the mind and body entrusted to us.

Ellen Swallow Richards

#26. B2uties are the most precious thing to me in this world.

Yoseob