Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Wu Guanzhong

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Chinese painter Wu Guanzhong.
Last updated on December 24, 2024.
Wu Guanzhong

Wu Guanzhong was a contemporary Chinese painter widely recognized as a founder of modern Chinese painting. He is considered to be one of the greatest contemporary Chinese painters. Wu's artworks display both Western and Eastern influences, such as the Western style of Fauvism and the Eastern style of Chinese calligraphy. Wu painted various aspects of China, including its architecture, plants, animals, people, as well as many of its landscapes and waterscapes, in a style reminiscent of the impressionist painters of the early 1900s. He was also a writer on contemporary Chinese art.

Chinese architecture has a complete organic structure; it contains both sensibility and purpose.
If you plagiarize others' techniques, you steal their emotions and tell your spectators a lie with your work. Works as such equal zero.
Brush and ink are only servants of thoughts and emotion. They should follow your emotion and change with the emotion. — © Wu Guanzhong
Brush and ink are only servants of thoughts and emotion. They should follow your emotion and change with the emotion.
Art is like a kite. You have to pull the string hard in order to stretch it to its limit, but you don't want to pull it so hard that you break the thread, because the thread connects you to the land and its peoples.
If a painting contains no abstraction nor impressionistic elements, it is a kite that will never fly. But if the painting completely breaks the connection between human feeling and the object portrayed, the kite string has been broken. I try to keep the line unbroken.
There is no standard way of using painting techniques.
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