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Dean Taylor Drewyer Quotes



Quotes by Dean Taylor Drewyer - (10 quotes)

Dean Taylor Drewyer - From the Gratitude category:

Gratefulness translates into a joy-filled understanding that informs art making - a simplicity that goes beyond preconceived ideas and moves us toward truth. (Dean Taylor Drewyer)

Dean Taylor Drewyer - From the Joy category:

My artmaking is simply a personal celebration of the joy of being alive. (Dean Taylor Drewyer)

Dean Taylor Drewyer - From the Materials category:

To further or enhance the struggle along this razor's edge between possibility and actuality, any tools are legitimate as long as these tools don't dull the edge. (Dean Taylor Drewyer)

Dean Taylor Drewyer - From the Methodology category:

A painter must always move forward while fighting to hold on to something already gone. (Dean Taylor Drewyer)

Dean Taylor Drewyer - From the Painting category:

The best paintings, it seems to me, are the ones in which the painter suspends any drive to control or order the world and commits to simply struggling to grab hold of a small part of the chaos. (Dean Taylor Drewyer)

Dean Taylor Drewyer - From the Perfection category:

Art lives in the marrying of human perception and the imperfect human touch. (Dean Taylor Drewyer)

Dean Taylor Drewyer - From the Plein-Air category:

Detached from judgement, hesitation, fear of failure or imitation, one embraces the moment and the place, as revealed in value, color, and shape - the impossible can happen and the spirit of the place appears as if by magic. (Dean Taylor Drewyer)

Dean Taylor Drewyer - From the Poetry category:

The connection between poetry and painting are as close as any two different art forms can be. The search for exactly the right word or set of words echos the search for the right color, the right value. Both forms struggle against the limitations inherent to their scope and tools and process. (Dean Taylor Drewyer)

Dean Taylor Drewyer - From the Technique category:

The human binocular and flickering vision, coupled with the precious imperfection of the human hand is where art lives - there are no shortcuts. (Dean Taylor Drewyer)

Dean Taylor Drewyer - From the Technology category:

Technology can make us fall in love with perfection and perfection can be the enemy of art as it removes the human touch. This is simply something to be alert to... (Dean Taylor Drewyer)