Alwin Quotes & Sayings

The average artist, if he chooses, could render an exact drawing of what he sees. Artistic work not only allows but demands some deviation from form and line. Just how far this may go depends on the viewpoint of each painter. — Edgar Alwin Payne

Our desires correspond precisely to God's plans. It's not that we want something, so we engage in wishful thinking that what we want exists. It's the opposite - the reason we want it is precisely because God has planned for it to exist. As we'll see, resurrected people living in a resurrected universe isn't our idea - it's God's. — Randy Alcorn

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene. — Brian Eno

The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature often and then practice continually. — Edgar Alwin Payne

I built a baseball field in the lower part of our property and I'm always working on that. I got a wheelbarrow, a pick and a shovel, and I started to build a baseball field during writers' strike. We have boys and girls come over and we have clinics in the spring. It's called The Strike because it's named for the writers' strike. — John C. McGinley

Basic dance
and I should qualify the word basic
is primarily concerned with motion. So immediately you will say but the basketball player is concerned with motion. That is so
but he is not concerned with it primarily. His action is a means towards an end beyond motion. In basic dance the motion is its own end
that is, it is concerned with nothing beyond itself. — Alwin Nikolais

Women should set themselves forth attractively but innocently, like a cat. A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening. — Alwin Nikolais

Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice. — Edgar Alwin Payne

Virtue creates reputation, but action brings success. — Debasish Mridha

Departure from the literal aspect, rather than mechanical exactness, is the code of the true artist. However, departures are the result of studied intent rather than inability. — Edgar Alwin Payne

The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially. — Edgar Alwin Payne

To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them. — Edgar Alwin Payne

Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who created it - can remeasure the influences that caused it. — Edgar Alwin Payne

The artist should always be the student. — Edgar Alwin Payne

The way of the world isn't the strong devouring the weak, but the weak deceiving and poisoning and whispering in the ears of the strong until they become weak, too. — N.K. Jemisin

Group Material is itself collaborative, which is non-hierarchical and we don't use the corporate model which is along lines of expertise but we work together and take responsibility as a group for every aspect of the work. And then there's a collaboration or dialogue with those artists and non-artists we work with, in terms of participation in the various projects. — Julie Ault