Category: Artist’s Insights

“I find the earliest years of my life are the source of my best inspiration.” —N.C. Wyeth Wyeth painted this illustration to grace the end papers of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel Treasure Island. The book remains one of my favorites to this very day, and Stevenson remains one of…

“To elevate the little into the great is genius.” —N.C. Wyeth What a great quote! It can be used on so many levels in life. For me, it’s a reminder to invest in other people: to encourage, assist, and foster growth so that another person can…

“To reach the goal of one’s ambitions must be tragic.” —N.C. Wyeth It doesn’t get much better than an N.C. Wyeth painting of a swaggering bunch of manly Englishmen standing about exuding bravado! 😀 Learn more about N.C. Wyeth.

“The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.” ”  —Robert Henri Learn more about Robert Henri.

“Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation.”  —John Singer Sargent Learn more about John Singer Sargent.

“I do not judge, I only chronicle.”  —John Singer Sargent Learn more about John Singer Sargent on Wikipedia.

“One can have no smaller or greater mastery then mastery of oneself.”  —Leonardo da Vinci Learn more about Leonardo da Vinci on Wikipedia.

“The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist’s own spiritual nature.”  —George Inness Learn more about Inness on Wikipedia.

“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”  —Michelangelo Learn more about Michelangelo on Wikipedia.