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I am here, there, and everywhere, following loosely the path blazened by my prolonged and meticulous research! (Lionel Aggett)

Art is research into the unknown, adding a little to the fund built up by earlier generations. This is the task of the artist. (Olle Baertling)

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. (Marston Bates)

Make sure to be well informed before accepting the challenge of a commission – check out that you have a source of reference readily available. (Richard Brown)

When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there. (Pearl S. Buck)

I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes. (Raymond Chandler)

The 'public' artist confirms the world that we already accept, though he inevitably widens our experience of it; his method is one of research, the progressive uncovering of detail. (Kenneth Coutts-Smith)

After many hours of colour theory, colour wheels, mixing, and value studies, I began to realize that maybe it was best just to let it all go, and paint. (Lorna Dockstader)

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. (Roger Ebert)

Leave no stone unturned. (Euripides)

I research areas in depth prior to planning a trip so I have a good idea of the many paintable locations in or near the area where I will stay. (Gerald J. Fritzler)

I've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle. (Jean-Luc Godard)

Analyze the work of great painters. Study how they emphasize and subordinate. (Irwin Greenberg)

Most of the knowledge and much of the genius of the research worker lie behind his selection of what is worth observing. It is a crucial choice, often determining the success or failure of months of work, often differentiating the brilliant discoverer from the... plodder. (Alan Gregg)

When study becomes labor, we had better change the subject matter as quickly as possible. (Henry S. Haskins)

What is research, but a blind date with knowledge. (William Henry)

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value. (Benjamin Jowett)

Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have. (Charles F. Kettering)

My idea of research is to take a walk in the bush and watch the birds fly past, and I am exhilarated by every meteoric movement. (Lars Knudsen)

Just as rust, which arose from the iron itself, wears out the iron, likewise, performing an action without examination would destroy us by projecting us into a negative state of existence. (Dalai Lama)

Keep building your visual library. (Ron Monsma)

Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls. (Edvard Munch)

Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research. (Pablo Picasso)

A well-judging man will open his trunk-line of study in such a direction that, while habitually adhering to it, he may enjoy a ready access to such other fields of knowledge as are most nearly related to it. (Sir James Fitzjames Stephen)

When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it. (Theodore Sturgeon)

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money. (Albert Szent-Gyorgyi)

As is my wont, I did my research. I listened to all the recordings and I read everything about Bob I could find. (Twyla Tharp)

The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. (Thorstein Veblen)

Collect stimulus, draw them. Focus, find out as much as you can. Stimulate yourself. (Kay WalkingStick)

In meditation we research the field without time and space and activity, and yet produce a useful effect while conducting the research. (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)


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