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Irwin Greenberg - From the Achievement category:
Give yourself room to fail and fight like hell to achieve. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Activity category:
Do rather than don't. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Advice category:
When at an impasse, look at the work of masters. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Ambition category:
Aim high, beyond your capacity. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Art category:
There is art in any endeavor done well. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Artists category:
Don't call yourself an artist. Let others name you that. 'Artist' is a title of great weight. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Attitude category:
Much depends on attitude. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Audience category:
If what you have to say is from your deepest feelings, you'll find an audience that responds. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Beginning category:
When painting outdoors, sit on your hands and look before starting. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Brother/Sisterhood category:
Be a brother (or sister) to all struggling artists. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Commitment category:
Commit yourself to a life in art. Throw yourself into each painting heart and soul. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Communication category:
Let your picture welcome the viewer. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Competition category:
Prizes are nice, but the real competition is with your performance yesterday. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Composition category:
Composing a picture, do many thumbnails, rejecting the obvious ones. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Confidence category:
Take pride in your work. Take pride in yourself. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Contrasts category:
To emphasize something means that the other parts of a picture must be muted. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Criticism category:
Stay away from put-down artists. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Critics category:
Critics don't matter. Who cares about Michelangelo's critics? (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Critics category:
Be your own toughest critic. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Dealers category:
Have a positive mind-set when showing your work to galleries. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Determination category:
Paint until you feel physical strain - take a break and then paint some more. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Difficulty category:
Paintings that you work hardest at are the ones you learn the most from, and are often your favorites. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Discipline category:
One factor that makes a good and successful artist, is discipline. It's the essence of the whole thing. And sadly, many young artists today lack that quality. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Drawing category:
Draw everywhere and all the time. An artist is a sketchbook with a person attached. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Education category:
You are always the student in a one-person art school. You are also the teacher of that class. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Education category:
There are three ways to learn art: Study life, people and nature. Study the great painters. Paint. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Effort category:
Meet deadlines. Be better than your word. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Emotion category:
No one is a better authority on your feelings than you are. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Enthusiasm category:
Let your enthusiasm show. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Envy category:
Don't envy others' success. Be generous-spirited and congratulate whole-heartedly. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Excellence category:
Be modest; be self-critical, but aim for the highest. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Experiments category:
Try things against your grain to find out just what your grain really is. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Failure category:
Don't allow yourself to be crushed by failure. Rembrandt had failures. Success grows from failure. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Finishing category:
I feel a finished painting is only a fair approximation of the unity of direction characteristic of a sketch. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Finishing category:
Take the theory of the 'last inch' holds that as you approach the end of a painting, you must gather all your resources for the finish. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Finishing category:
Try not to finish too fast. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Friendship category:
Find a mate who is really a mate. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Greatness category:
To become a great artist you have to see unity and direction in everything you do. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Growth category:
Remember: Michelangelo was once a helpless baby. Great works are the result of heroic struggle. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Habit category:
Habit is more powerful than will. If you get in the habit of painting every day, nothing will keep you from painting. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Humility category:
Be humble; learn from everybody. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Humour category:
Develop a sense of humor about yourself. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Ideas category:
Read. Be conversant with the great ideas. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Importance category:
Rembrandt is always clear about what is most important in a picture. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Influence category:
Add new painters to your list of favorites all the time. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Inspiration category:
Vermeer found a life's work in the corner of a room. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Knowledge category:
Don't hoard your knowledge, share it. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Magic category:
Grit and guts are the magic ingredients to your success. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Masters category:
For all his artistic skills, what's most important about Rembrandt is his deep compassion. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Materials category:
Know your art equipment and take care of it. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Materials category:
Buy the best materials you can afford. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Mediocrity category:
Remember, Rembrandt wasn't perfect. He had to fight mediocrity. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Mediums category:
To know the medium you have to work in it. Allot. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Mentors category:
Find the artists who are on your wavelength and continuously increase that list. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Methodology category:
Build your painting solidly, working from big planes to small. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Money category:
Spend less than you earn. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Money category:
Money is OK, but it isn't what life is about. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Obscurity category:
If, after study, the work of an artist remains obscure, the fault may not be yours. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Opportunity category:
All doors open to a hard push. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Opposites category:
Overcome errors in observing by exaggerating the opposite. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Painting category:
When painting, always keep in mind what your picture is about. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Painting category:
Paint every day. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Perseverance category:
The secret ingredient in development is just plain guts - the courage to continue despite disappointments, to grit your teeth and begin again, to examine a failure until it yields its flaws, and then swing back into battle. That's how we develop the confidence that tells us we can work out any answer. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Planning category:
Try to end a day's work on a picture knowing how to proceed the next day. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Plein-Air category:
Everything outside is exciting to look at. There are suddenly hundreds of paintings all around me. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Plein-Air category:
Whenever I've gone outdoors to paint there is this heightened perceptiveness afterwards. This being at one with everything - the air is fresher and the sky is glorious. It's a thrill to be alive - and being a painter makes you the luckiest of men. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Portraiture category:
Notice how, in a portrait, Rembrandt reduces the modeling of clothes to the essentials, emphasizing the head and the hands. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Possessions category:
Find out the fewest material things you need to live. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Potential category:
Never say, 'I can't.' It closes the door to potential development. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Preparation category:
Have a set of materials ready wherever you go. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Problems category:
Study artists who are dealing with the same problems that you're trying to solve. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Profession category:
No matter what you do for a living, nurture your art. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Progress category:
No struggle, no progress. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Prosperity category:
Painting is a practical art, using real materials - paints, brushes, canvas, paper. Part of the practicality of it is earning a living in art. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Questions category:
Sometimes a good 'What if?' has enabled me to see a sketch (or even a good sketch) in a new way. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Research category:
Analyze the work of great painters. Study how they emphasize and subordinate. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Satisfaction category:
Don't settle for yourself at your mediocre level. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Searching category:
There are no worthwhile tricks in art; find the answer. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Seeing category:
See the planes of light as shapes, the planes of shadows as shapes. Squint your eyes and find the big, fluent shapes. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Simplicity category:
Keep it simple. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Sleep category:
Go to sleep thinking about what you're going to do first thing tomorrow. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Standards category:
Your own standards have to be higher and more scrupulous than those of critics. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Strategy category:
Be ingenious. Howard Pyle got his start in illustrating by illustrating his own stories. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Struggle category:
If art is hard, it's because you're struggling to go beyond what you know you can do. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Style category:
Don't look for gimmicks to give your work style. You might be stuck with them for life. Or, worse yet, you might have to change your 'style' every few years. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Subject category:
If you're at a lost for what to do next, do a self-portrait. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Success category:
Succeeding takes more than technical skill, inspiration or simple forbearance. It incorporates your state of mind, your powers of thought and expression, your self-discipline and your strength of character. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Survival category:
Don't be an art snob. Most painters I know teach, do illustrations, or work in an art-related field. Survival is the game. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Talent category:
Don't be envious of anyone who is more talented than you. Be the best you can be. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Teaching category:
If you teach, teach the individual. Find out where he or she is having trouble and help at that point. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Teaching category:
My best teacher was German, he didn't speak English. He would show by demonstrating. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Time category:
Structure your day so you have time for painting, reading, exercising and resting. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Time category:
Don't say, 'I haven't the time.' You have as much time everyday as the great masters. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Tones category:
Study how Rembrandt creates flow of tone. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Values category:
Read values relatively. Find the lightest light and compare all other light values to it. Do the same with the darks. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Watercolours category:
I suppose all the talk about method in watercolor can be reduced to the effort of an artist to realize in large scale what he's achieved on small scale. (Irwin Greenberg)
Irwin Greenberg - From the Work category:
Inspiration doesn't come when you are idle. It comes when you have steeped yourself in work. (Irwin Greenberg)
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