Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Millard Sheets

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American painter Millard Sheets.

Last updated on December 23, 2024.

Millard Owen Sheets was an American artist, teacher, and architectural designer. He was one of the earliest of the California Scene Painting artists and helped define the art movement. Many of his large-scale building-mounted mosaics from the mid-20th century are still extant in Southern California. His paintings are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum in New York, the Chicago Art Institute, the National Gallery in Washington D.C.; and the Los Angeles County Museum.

American - Painter | June 24, 1907 - March 31, 1989

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Painting expresses the depth and insight, the spiritual quality of the artist. If art is about life, then, while the depth to which the artist has drunk from the well of life may not guarantee success, it must surely improve the quality of his/her work.

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Drawing at its best is not what your eyes see but what our mind understands.

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Design may be the logical solution to a problem, but it's never a formula. Design grows out of clarity of purpose.

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Good design is a great combination of common sense, unusual imagination, clarity of purpose–with a prerequisite knowledge of structure, values, color, aesthetic insight and a deep reverence for the love of life.

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Art is many things but, directly or indirectly, it always describes the human condition.

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Is your work an interpretation of your understanding of reality, or is it simply a picture of your feelings?

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Your painting is a measure of your mind.

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