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Harley Brown - From the Accidents category:
Much in life is learned and accomplished by accident. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Art category:
Making art is the most relaxing, joyous, therapeutic stimulating way to spend your time, as you unleash the part of your brain that's been itching to get at it. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Artists category:
Isn't the mind of the artist brimming with arcane layers? Even artists don't really understand other artists let alone themselves. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Attitude category:
The greatest obstacle to most people isn't skill, it's attitude. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Beauty category:
Real beauty is most often a tingling surprise to the eye. It goes against the common, which is one of the reasons it is spellbinding... Oh, yes, I'm rattled to the bone by beauty. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Boredom category:
When it comes to value, that's when we find out why most paintings are boring and others will knock your socks off. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Colour category:
I love hot red and yet I am always in drab gray clothing. I use green sparingly in my paintings yet a large field of green grass brings tears to my eyes. Still, it all makes sense. It is a love of color and what it does for our lives. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Confidence category:
Walk to your easel casually, but with a dollop of arrogance. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Confidence category:
Real confidence only comes from study and practice. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Dealers category:
All my dealers are the best of people... They earn every dollar of their commissions as they are in full partnership with their artists. I can sit in my studio and do nothing but paint pictures. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Drawing category:
Value drawings are one of the artist's best friends. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Emotion category:
Many artists like to rush forward thinking that their pure 'emotions' are more important on the paper than good proportions... eventually having to return into clumsy areas and correct, correct, correct. That's when the freshness disappears. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Expectation category:
Don't try to second-guess and paint for other people. Don't do your art through their eyes, as it's quite a waste of your valuable time. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Finishing category:
The painting is always finished before the artist thinks it is. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Focus category:
Travel, listen, look, learn. Never stand still with what you have; it will leave you. Keep focused. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Form category:
I love to overlap forms. Whether is is a hand over a cheek, a cat in front of a dog or a tree partially obscuring the porch. The fun is combining subjects to give the illusion of depth. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Frustration category:
If you become frustrated with your painting, give it a short rest... Walk away and start counting... A calm overview solves many problems. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Fun category:
You can't have more fun than interpreting nature while in the throws of making art. The rest of the world disappears. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Greatness category:
Great art can be neither fully understood nor accomplished without the complete understanding of edges. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Happiness category:
Total uninterrupted happiness does not exist in its purest form... I've always felt that the good moments, and they are blissful, wouldn't measure up if they weren't earned. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Interpretation category:
Being in control impacts our interpretations. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Intuition category:
I don't understand my intuitive side, but it understands me all too well and knows just when to kick in. I nourish its well-earned independence and perception. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Light category:
I don't paint people and things; I paint the way light reacts to people and things. This brings me to the basics about light and dark. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Meaning category:
A painting doesn't have to have a profound meaning. It doesn't have to 'say' a word. We fall in love for simpler reasons. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Mediums category:
Once in a while, work with a medium that you're not used to. It is always an energizing experience, one that spills over into your 'regular' work. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Models category:
The model is often amazed at my questions. I want to know their thoughts, their hopes, their dreams. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Nudes category:
We must look for the pure essence of the human body and not the niggling details that sometimes clutter up the flow of form. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Opportunity category:
Look for and make your opportunities happen; they are not going to come rushing up to your doorstep. But sometimes they'll be looking you right in the face. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Painting category:
That stroke you are about to make on a painting is as much you as the next word you utter or the next breath you take. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Perspective category:
Aerial perspective = atmosphere... Light, color, detail, edges and contrast weaken as they flow into the distance. All living creatures subliminally understand this. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Planning category:
Why plan to fix it later, when you can get it right at the start? That's like planning to fail. There's no benefit from being sloppy. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Plein-Air category:
Creating on the spot has an adventure that my modest words will never explain. Ask an auto racer, a ,mountain climber. Something happens when all five senses are working and the sixth sense arrives. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Portraiture category:
A portrait can get awfully hot when the artist thinks in terms of flesh and blood, rosy cheeks, lips and ears. This is particularly so if there are cools surrounding the subject such as a blue curtain or blue shirt... don't forget that some of that cool might very well be bouncing into the face and figure. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Preparation category:
Solid, time-consuming preparation does not take away any of the enthusiasm of the final painting. In fact, the preliminaries in color and tonal studies free up the artist for an unbridled yet focused trip to the finish. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Purpose category:
If art takes up much of the artist's time, then it makes sense that she/he be 'lost' in the euphoria of creating. Isn't that one of our ultimate purposes in life? (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Rejection category:
Do not take rejection personally... Every time you feel you've failed or have bruised feelings, crowd those thoughts out of your head with a personal moment that works... The art world is a series of daily adjustments... (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Revelation category:
There are no rules, no prerequisites. And when you learn your skills the right way, your desire will reveal wonderful uncharted worlds within you. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Skill category:
Take time learning new skills and principles... Knowledge acquired quickly, flies out the window. In art the tortoise wins. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Sleep category:
Do at least one good sketch each day and you'll sleep like a kitten each night. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Studio category:
My studio has a personality of its own. It can be a monstrous clutter from one end to the other or, at times, the very model of simplicity. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Subject category:
The painting is of the subject, but it is also of me. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Success category:
I've never thought of myself as a success because success is an ongoing process. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Survival category:
All successful artists have disturbing stories in their lives and careers. They survive by coping consistently and creatively. Those difficulties keep us very creatively active, keep us aware with a deepening insight. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Talent category:
Without underestimating the value of talent, it's not the most important attribute you need to become a successful artist. It's not even second. More important than talent is desire. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Technique category:
Consider diversity of techniques within your paintings. Pick and choose your areas and then go with gusto... or refinement. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Titles category:
I like to keep my titles simple. A title generally ends up on the back of the painting or in a catalogue... One way or another, I honor my painting with a name. Never 'Untitled.' (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Understanding category:
It's easy to project confusion into your work unless you see the truth and wholly understand that which you are painting. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Values category:
In painting, as in life, you can get away with a great deal as long as you have your values right. (Harley Brown)
Harley Brown - From the Words category:
Words carry weight in the world of paintings. At times quite artfully. (Harley Brown)
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