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Coulter Watt Art Quotes - (13 quotes)

Coulter Watt - From the Choices category:

Choice is strength. Having choice is also freedom. (Coulter Watt)

Coulter Watt - From the Communication category:

The visual language of metaphors is one we all speak, consciously or not. We all dream in that language. (Coulter Watt)

Coulter Watt - From the Eccentricity category:

Eccentricity comes from the mind and a playfulness about life and language, manifesting itself in real individualistic character. (Coulter Watt)

Coulter Watt - From the Experience category:

It's the experience that matters and if painters can take a viewer on the experience, they've created a work of art. (Coulter Watt)

Coulter Watt - From the Intellect category:

It's all those years of cognitive learning and study that lead to what many refer to as "intuitive" painting, but they forget the intellectual process that got them to the point where painting became a fluid, natural act. (Coulter Watt)

Coulter Watt - From the Love category:

There is no "effortless ease, carefreeness, harmony and love" in nature – love is a human emotion. (Coulter Watt)

Coulter Watt - From the Masters category:

What the masters have in common is that they brought something new and powerful to the idea. (Coulter Watt)

Coulter Watt - From the Money category:

If you look like a starving artist, you'll be one. If you want to command high prices, then dress as though you can afford the finer things in life. (Coulter Watt)

Coulter Watt - From the Nudes category:

Often a certain tenderness and love is felt capturing the nude's special beauty and spirit in paint. It is a romance with the subject and the canvas, and it's very seductive. (Coulter Watt)

Coulter Watt - From the Perspective category:

Once you know the rules of perspective, it is the painter's choice to use the techniques or disregard them as a matter of intelligent design and style, but there will be no struggle to achieve the desired effect. (Coulter Watt)

Coulter Watt - From the Power category:

When an object or painting ceases to be a painting for a viewer and becomes an experience, that is an epiphany. That is the great power of art. (Coulter Watt)

Coulter Watt - From the Winning category:

The marketplace declares the ultimate winners. (Coulter Watt)

Coulter Watt - From the Words category:

As a compliment, the word 'artist' should never be used as a self-descriptive word; name your discipline. (Coulter Watt)

Editor: Robert Genn

Consultants: Sara Genn, Richard Thompson
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