Schmid Quotes & Sayings

Underlying all your choices, particularly subject matter and the way you represent it, should be your own personal scruples, the standards and rules that you voluntarily set for yourself, and which you may change or abandon whenever you choose - without explanation to anyone. — Richard Schmid

The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration — Helmut Schmid

The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your painter's eye is the special portal to such sights. — Richard Schmid

It is not coincidence that makes a designer but his continuity. And continuity means working and searching, working and fighting, working and finding, finding and seeing, seeing and communicating, and again working and searching. Designers must challenge the past, must challenge the present, must challenge the future; but first of all, designers must be true to themselves. Design is attitude. — Helmut Schmid

The camera's perspective exactly matches that of the assassin: it now shoots the tourists shooting their own memorial photos, and we can watch this in real time. — Joachim Schmid

Use lots of paint and don't worry, they will make more ... — Richard Schmid

It is better to die for the truth than to live for a lie. Let it cost me what it will, I will not depart from the truth, even to save my own or my father's life. I will obey God, and trust Him for the rest. — Christoph Von Schmid

Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked last time may not work this time. — Richard Schmid

My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses . — Richard Schmid

Scan your subject for things that are clearly impossible. After all, paint isn't magic! If you see that certain elements in the subject are beyond the limits of your pigments, try to form an idea beforehand of how you are going to handle those areas when you get to them. — Richard Schmid

Typography needs to be audible. Typography needs to be felt. Typography needs to be experienced. — Helmut Schmid

Your rules should arise out of your passions and your experience with what works for you. — Richard Schmid

It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before he or she can ruin it. — Richard Schmid

Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first. — Richard Schmid

If we only thought of our feet as we walk, we'd miss everything else. — Richard Schmid

I have a group of four or five friends that I consider my friends and best friends and people that I want to hold onto for the rest of my life. — Kyle Schmid

What sets you apart from the rest of humanity is your ability to give visual form to an idea - the skill to transform it into something more than merely the insight or perception alone. — Richard Schmid

The most striking feature of the new is the sheer mass. Photography was previously a mass phenomenon, but now, quantity is doubtless the outstanding quality. For a long time photos have been taken frequently and everywhere, but now photos are taken permanently and everywhere, ... What is new is that we can watch them practically in real time. — Joachim Schmid

I'm petrified of spiders. I hate them. I sleep with a glass of water beside my bed every night. I woke up once to take a sip of water and almost swallowed a dead one floating in the glass. — Kyle Schmid

There are times when I have started a work with an end in mind, but then, for one reason or another, as my picture unfolded, it emphatically suggested another direction ... I always accept the risk and go for it. I'm convinced that at such times my painting is wiser than I am. — Richard Schmid

Be prepared! All of your gear should be in a state of readiness so you can concentrate on painting. Choose your brushes as you would choose weapons before battle. — Richard Schmid

Make your art a gift of inspiration to others to work toward better things. — Richard Schmid

Never knowingly leave anything wrong on your canvas. — Richard Schmid

I haven't modelled since I was 12 - that was a one-time thing, and I did it as a kid to make a little money to save up for university. Acting is my first love as well as writing and eventually producing and directing. — Kyle Schmid

How often have we all come to that crucial point in a painting where it is practically 'begging' us to stop before we ruin it? We have all had that experience and we risk failure, or at the least mediocrity, if we ignore the voice in our art. — Richard Schmid

I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings. — Richard Schmid

In a sense, every work you do is a self-portrait because your paintings always reveal more about you than about your subject. Your experience of something, not the something itself, is the true underlying subject of every work you do. — Richard Schmid

If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you don't, the result will look like something that isn't there. — Richard Schmid

There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true. — Samuel Schmid

When we are bursting with some wordless experience, Art is our voice, the song of the heart. — Richard Schmid

The desire for security must be balanced with our regard for liberty. — Samuel Schmid

This past year has been something else ... it's opened my eyes to many things and many people. It's had its ups and downs and ins and outs. And I believe we've all been able to take something from that and grow in our own imparticular ways. We've over come obstacles, and set in motion opportunities that can change our own individual lives. — Kyle Schmid

With such disappointing lunkheads for parents, naturally Petunia must leave home. — Paul Schmid

Don't leave the one who loves you for the one you like because the one you like will leave you for the one they like ... — Kyle Schmid

All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult. — Richard Schmid

I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it. — Kyle Schmid

You can stick with a few clear-cut values, which are stronger than a multitude of values and will obviously yield a stronger painting. But not all subjects or light conditions appear that way ... be sensible and paint with values that are appropriate and faithful to your subject. — Richard Schmid

There is nothing to fear on earth but sin. Prison and death are nothing compared to a guilty conscience. If we are destined to suffer unjustly, if all the world forsake us, God will not. Whatever happens, then, let us put our trust in God. — Christoph Von Schmid

I'd like to guest star on 'Game of Thrones.' I love period pieces and dark material. I think the show has a good balance of that and some solid characters. — Kyle Schmid

As painters ... we must always remember that our precious poetic visions and spiritual insights will remain forever locked within us until we can boil them down to a complex arrangement of a few hundred or possibly even thousands of brushstrokes ... — Richard Schmid

One fact is beyond dispute: Homogenization prevents the consumer from realizing just how little fat is contained in modern processed milk, even "full fat" milk. Before homogenization, milk purchasers looked for milk that had lots of cream - that was the sign that the milk came from healthy cows, cows on pasture. Old-fashioned milk contained from 4 to 8 percent butterfat, which translated into lots of cream on the top. Modern milk is standardize at 3.5 percent, no more. Butterfat brings bigger profits to the dairy industry as butter or as an ingredient in ice cream than as a component of liquid milk. The consumer has been cheated, but with homogenization, he can't tell. — Ron Schmid

I think there are no meaningful images. Meanings are created outside of the image. — Joachim Schmid

For the first time in the history of photography, we can study the real-time production of snapshot making - globally! (On Flickr and other photosharing websites) — Joachim Schmid

The first day was memorable for me. I walked into this studio with these giant eyes, slowly met everybody and got to see the story boards and sketches of our characters. I got the see the sets and was just amazed that all this was to be something we all were going to be part of for almost a year. — Kyle Schmid

Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise. — Richard Schmid

We all are who we are. We're not necessarily good, and we're not necessarily bad. So much television, in the writing, is so one-dimensional, in that aspect, where you have your good guys and you have your bad guys. — Kyle Schmid

Soccer is my first love. I've been playing since I was 4 years old. I traveled the world doing it. I broke my leg when I was 16 or 17, and acting kind of filled the void. — Kyle Schmid

Talent, don't bother about wether or not you have it. Just assume that you do, and forget about it. Talent is a word we use after someone has become accomplished. — Richard Schmid

The strength and clarity of the picture you envision at the start will tell you when you are done. You are finished when you have said what you wish to say, when nothing added can make it better. — Richard Schmid

I alone must solve my problem. I have to clear my mind of everything else, think hard, analyze, explore my options, plan a strategy for the immediate situation, and then do whatever it takes. Sometimes it means scraping off what I have done and starting over again and again. — Richard Schmid

No new photographs until all the old ones have been used up. — Joachim Schmid

Switzerland is part of the fight against terrorism. There is no neutrality against this threat. — Samuel Schmid

Learn to understand the real beauty of simplicity. — Christoph Von Schmid

An incomplete sketch superbly executed is power. — Richard Schmid

Don't wish for "secrets" of the masters, either. There are none worth fooling with. They had no special mediums or paints, nor special brushes that made their work great. — Richard Schmid

Madame Schmid belonged to that large class of persons who believe that a man who engages in any form of art is necessarily a loafer. — Molly Elliot Seawell

I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression in the plastic arts. — Richard Schmid

Our heart is a garden, which the good God has given us to cultivate, and we must always be aware of the weeds that grow without observation. It is necessary that we should unceasingly apply ourselves to the cultivation of the good and the extraction of the evil which might take root. — Christoph Von Schmid

Somewhere within all of us is a wordless center, a part of us that hopes to be immortal in some way, a part that has remained unchanged since we were children, the source of our strength and compassion. This faint confluence of the tangible and the spiritual is where Art comes from. It has no known limits, and once you tap into it you will realize what truly rich choices you have. May each painting you do from that sacred place include an expression of gratitude for the extraordinary privilege of being an artist. — Richard Schmid

Paint like a pig eats. — Richard Schmid