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Edgar Whitney Art Quotes - (17 quotes)

Edgar Whitney - From the Art category:

Art is rational. (Edgar Whitney)

Edgar Whitney - From the Boredom category:

You are my host in that rectangle. You mustn't bore me. Change is the only antidote to boredom. (Edgar Whitney)

Edgar Whitney - From the Collectors category:

You are symbol collectors. (Edgar Whitney)

Edgar Whitney - From the Design category:

Design is like gravity – the force that holds it all together. (Edgar Whitney)

Edgar Whitney - From the Design category:

How can I qualify my faith in the inviolability of the design principles? Their virtue is demonstrated. They work. (Edgar Whitney)

Edgar Whitney - From the Design category:

A masterly, powerful stature as a designer can be acquired only by a fairly normal mind plus scholarship. (Edgar Whitney)

Edgar Whitney - From the Experience category:

To paint a chicken you have to be a chicken. (Edgar Whitney)

Edgar Whitney - From the Friendship category:

There are only two things that matter in life - your friends and your art. Everything else is worthless. (Edgar Whitney)

Edgar Whitney - From the Knowledge category:

The priceless quality of ease is present when one knows one knows. (Edgar Whitney)

Edgar Whitney - From the Masters category:

The discipline endured is the mastery achieved. (Edgar Whitney)

Edgar Whitney - From the Pattern category:

Think pattern first, then drawing, then color. The character of your painting is resolved in the pattern scheme. (Edgar Whitney)

Edgar Whitney - From the Planning category:

Plan like a turtle; paint like a rabbit. (Edgar Whitney)

Edgar Whitney - From the Rewards category:

You have chosen to spend your time and money on esthetics. Others can cheat you, a craft cannot. It's the only area in life where you get back what you've put in. (Edgar Whitney)

Edgar Whitney - From the Spectator category:

Invite the viewer into the picture and entertain him everywhere. (Edgar Whitney)

Edgar Whitney - From the Standards category:

A good design poorly executed is much to be preferred over a poor design well executed. (Edgar Whitney)

Edgar Whitney - From the Truth category:

Create the beautiful lie. (Edgar Whitney)

Edgar Whitney - From the Unknowns category:

Your trouble is that when you were a child everything was named for you. (Edgar Whitney)

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