Top 30 Quotes & Sayings by Igor Babailov
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American artist Igor Babailov.
Last updated on November 18, 2024.
The purpose of Art Education is to teach you how to draw.
The ability to draw from life determines the artist's skill. This is why live drawing classes have always been at the top of the curriculum for properly structured academic workshops.
Don't share your secrets if you preface them with 'just don't tell anybody.
As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts.
I choose to paint beauty.
It's a luxury to have so much time, especially with someone so important and busy. You have to get a feel for the person.
The more you paint the more fluent you are with your brush.
Art Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language.
Painting should educate and enrich. Modern painting merely offers a split-second emotion: You see it, you have an instant reaction and move on. Instead, real painting can be looked at over and over again and each time it has something new.
Even though these are different times, right now we are particularly thinking about what is leadership, and Washington's qualities are as needed today as they were at the founding of this great nation.
Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego.
Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or work requiring methods and techniques of the Renaissance Masters.
In visual art it's better once to see, than one hundred times to hear.
We're all God's children. We are all special people, and the Pope is no different.
One can compare art education to the solid foundation for a house - once it's built properly, it will hold any shape or form you will place on it.
It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one.
Painting is a mosaic of colors weaved into a seamless whole.
Realist artists should join together in a worldwide effort... Sharing it with each other and teaching it - that is the key to the success and never-ending beauty and harmony of Realism.
Different instructors' approaches may 'clash' with each other and result in confusion and unclear direction for the students. It's like attempting to learn how to write using both hands at the same time. How far would you go?
Whether it is drawing or painting, skilled Artists usually deliver a faster result without jeopardizing the quality, simply because they don't have to waste their time on fixing mistakes.
If you have ambitions to go beyond your dreams, you should not seek to copy others' styles, but rather aim to acquire the fundamentals of the timeless principles of academic school, which is a prerequisite for the development of your Uniqueness as an Artist.
Insecurity prevents young artists from 'flying' and older artists from being 'down to earth.' Young artists should work on their confidence and the older ones on their humility.
Artists with the lack of proper education and experience of working from life will copy whatever is visible on the photograph, without knowing what's underneath. As a result, instead of creating the in-depth and full of character portrait, they draw a mask with no soul.
It is sinful for students to badmouth their teachers and sinful for teachers to mislead their students.
Envy derives from insecurity.
Art is an international language, understood by all.
When we think of Leonardo da Vinci, the last thing that comes to mind is the nationality of the artist. The great masters belong to the world.
Even when you paint, you never stop drawing.
Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums.
Painting requires skill. Photography is created by the camera, and one cannot fully control what the camera sees. So people take many photographs because several must always be discarded.
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