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Sergei Bongart - From the Advice category:
Always keep your best work. (Sergei Bongart)
Sergei Bongart - From the Art category:
Art is more than a product of your efforts – it should be about feeling, life, attitude, soul. (Sergei Bongart)
Sergei Bongart - From the Beginning category:
First draw dog, then fleas. First paint apple, then worm holes. (Sergei Bongart)
Sergei Bongart - From the Colour category:
All students need to know about color is the basic color wheel and complimentary colors. There are many books on color theory; do not waste your time and money. (Sergei Bongart)
Sergei Bongart - From the Competence category:
Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter. (Sergei Bongart)
Sergei Bongart - From the Contrasts category:
Contrast warm to cool. Make color sing, ring like a bell. Work from big to small. (Sergei Bongart)
Sergei Bongart - From the Copying category:
Once you set out to copy another painter you can never be more than number two. (Sergei Bongart)
Sergei Bongart - From the Drawing category:
Never become an artist if you can't learn to draw. (Sergei Bongart)
Sergei Bongart - From the Importance category:
Most important... develop your technical ability. You are handicapped if you do not develop well enough to hold the subconscious process so as not to have problems of inexperienced painters... (Sergei Bongart)
Sergei Bongart - From the Nature category:
Study nature. Exaggerate light; overstate – the less inhibited you are, the better. (Sergei Bongart)
Sergei Bongart - From the Originality category:
There is no one just like you, and there never will be anyone just like you, so there's no reason not to be original. (Sergei Bongart)
Sergei Bongart - From the Photography category:
If you paint from 35mm Kodachrome, you end up with a 4x5 foot Kodachrome! (Sergei Bongart)
Sergei Bongart - From the Practice category:
Practice like good musician; draw every day. (Sergei Bongart)
Sergei Bongart - From the Questions category:
The most horrible question students ask: 'How do you paint copper?' 'How do you paint flesh or glass?' You paint everything the same way: Right color, right value, in right spot. There are no prescriptions. (Sergei Bongart)
Sergei Bongart - From the Rules category:
First trust your eyes... then check by rules. Many times something else is happening, and the rules will not apply. (Sergei Bongart)
Sergei Bongart - From the Technique category:
Learn technique; have full command to the extent of not being conscious of how it is done. When craftsmanship has been developed, you are free to create... technique will give way to expression! (Sergei Bongart)
Sergei Bongart - From the Time category:
I have to get it out quick or I cool off. (Sergei Bongart)
Sergei Bongart - From the Watercolours category:
Watercolor is like life. Better get it right the first time – you don't get a second chance! (Sergei Bongart)
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