Quotes About Watercolors

The one question I specifically recall being asked was how a man as evil as Hitler could paint such delightful watercolors.

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.

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

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

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?

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

Never yet did insurrection wantSuch water-colors to impaint his cause.

Kitty, since I am going to be in town for a month or two, I wonder if you might be interested in visiting me. We certainly found several common interests at Pemberley, and I would love to see your finished watercolors of the Peaks." Kitty

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

As if it were important, he strained his memory; beside the sofa there had been a large lamp with a round milk-white base encircled by a chain of painted roses, and beyond that, on the wall, neatly framed, was a series of water colors done by a forgotten aunt during her Grand Tour.

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. 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.

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.

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

Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford to follow my mood, my spirits.

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.

If wrestling can be considered an art form, then [Ric Flair] is using oils, and the many others merely water colors.

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

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

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