Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Toni Onley

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Last updated on April 20, 2025.

Toni Onley was a Manx painter noted for his landscapes and abstract works. Born in Douglas on the Isle of Man, he moved to Canada in 1948, and lived in Brantford, Ontario. Later he moved to Vancouver and finally, Victoria, BC.

November 20, 1928 - February 29, 2004

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People generally are more interested in my work when they get to know me. Serious collectors like to get not just a painting but a piece of the artist.

Toni Onley

Do not draw before you paint, it will restrict your brush.

Toni Onley

I'd rather go out in a decent crack-up than in a hospital.

Toni Onley

The good watercolors take a lifetime - plus a half an hour.

Toni Onley

You're trying to make your painting too complicated. Paintings get complicated all by themselves.

Toni Onley

I drop in from the sky disturbing the silence only momentarily, then leaving the ancient land once more to converse with the sky. It's my home and all I need.

Toni Onley

The more successful paintings just fall off the brush. The less successful ones take longer.

Toni Onley

Let's find visual excitement in what nature has to offer.

Toni Onley

Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Toni Onley

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