A Quote by Jerry Pinkney

I like to bring a certain sense of humanity and detail to my work, and watercolor allows me to do that. I have fascination and wonder about the line and transparent quality or properties in watercolor. I use watercolor to give voice to what I would like to talk about.

Jerry Pinkney

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Jerry Pinkney
American - Illustrator
Born: December 22, 1939

Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

Jane Seymour

She was transparent, like a watercolor. As if she were about to dissolve in sound, in tones not yet created.

Peter Høeg

To me, watercolor is a Western medium, so when I feel like I am using a Western manner I will use English to sign my name.

Liu Dan

What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

Jane Seymour

To me, that's one of the things that I love about doing this stuff. One day I can work on this piece in watercolor, and then work on something else on the computer, or work on something else that's a completely different approach.

Bill Sienkiewicz

As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.

Anne Sexton

This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.

Erich Segal

A photograph to me is always a reminder of how the person was on a certain day in that certain light fixed. When I look at a watercolor of that same person, it seems to me alive, more open than a photograph.

Francesco Clemente

Our memories, the way we tend to experience them, are sort of fuzzy around the edges, like a watercolor that has bled into the past and is not totally clear.

Lisa Joy

Watercolor is like life. Better get it right the first time--you don't get a second chance!

Sergei Bongart

For me making a digital photo is like making a watercolor... It's not a painting, and it's not a photo. It's something altogether new.

Art Wolfe

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

Peter Shaffer

If I have any advice to anybody it's this: take up watercolor painting.

Charles Bukowski

Part of why I like watercolor is that mistakes are visible, and you can't really repair much. It has to look easy. When it comes out, it looks easy, but to get to that point takes a lot of doing.

Chris Raschka

I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term - meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching - there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

Ansel Adams

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