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Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first.

Richard Schmid

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Richard Schmid
Age: 86 †
Born: 1934
Born: October 5
Died: 2021
Died: April 18
Artist
Painter
Chicago
Illinois
Richard Alan Schmid
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Whenever
Obvious
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Paint like a pig eats.
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My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses .
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Don't wish for secrets of the masters, either. There are none worth fooling with. They had no special mediums or paints, nor special brushes that made their work great.
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An incomplete sketch superbly executed is power.
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Underlying all your choices, particularly subject matter and the way you represent it, should be your own personal scruples, the standards and rules that you voluntarily set for yourself, and which you may change or abandon whenever you choose - without explanation to anyone.
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How often have we all come to that crucial point in a painting where it is practically 'begging' us to stop before we ruin it? We have all had that experience and we risk failure, or at the least mediocrity, if we ignore the voice in our art.
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I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression in the plastic arts.
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There are times when I have started a work with an end in mind, but then, for one reason or another, as my picture unfolded, it emphatically suggested another direction... I always accept the risk and go for it. I'm convinced that at such times my painting is wiser than I am.
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Your rules should arise out of your passions and your experience with what works for you.
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As painters...we must always remember that our precious poetic visions and spiritual insights will remain forever locked within us until we can boil them down to a complex arrangement of a few hundred or possibly even thousands of brushstrokes.
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When we are bursting with some wordless experience, Art is our voice, the song of the heart.
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If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you don't, the result will look like something that isn't there.
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I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings.
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Scan your subject for things that are clearly impossible. After all, paint isn't magic! If you see that certain elements in the subject are beyond the limits of your pigments, try to form an idea beforehand of how you are going to handle those areas when you get to them.
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