Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Rex Brandt

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Last updated on October 5, 2024.

Rexford Elson Brandt was an American artist and educator. Much of his oeuvre consists of paintings inspired by the life and geography of the West Coast of the United States, particularly California. Brandt worked in multiple mediums including print making, oil painting and watercolor painting. He gained national recognition for his watercolor painting during the period from the mid 1930s to the 1990s. Early in his career he was associated with California Scene Painting but after World War II Brandt focused on complex, semi-abstract works. The depiction of the regenerative warmth of the sun was a central focus of his painting; he wrote that "Everyone has hang-ups, I suppose. Mine is sunshine. Not sunlight -- although I like to paint sunlight too."

American - Author | 1914 - March 21, 2000

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The painting is usually finished before you are.

Rex Brandt

Emotion doesn't have to be happiness.

Rex Brandt

Texture is most evident where dark meets light on the turning edge and at the outer edge. Experience has taught us to assume that the areas in between have similar features.

Rex Brandt

Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.

Rex Brandt

Overlapping shapes are a safer indication of depth than is linear perspective.

Rex Brandt

We see light, not dark. But it is in the dark that we feel goblins and ghosts.

Rex Brandt

The audience is astonishingly friendly and tolerant of even the slightest dab, but is limited in its willingness to look either deeply or at length.

Rex Brandt

After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

Rex Brandt

All is measured by that relative term, quality. It is in this search for quality that the artist is, of necessity, the eternal student.