William Dobell Quotes
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The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.
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My best work is always done... when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery.
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Honing a thing down until you can still get through with economy, that's power. Learn your technique thoroughly, immerse yourself in it, and then just throw it all out the window, and express what you feel... and it will come through that you are a technician.
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So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no characterisation.
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my sitters get tired waiting for commissioned portraits. If they commission me they have to wait years sometimes because I discard so many.
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Honing a thing down until you can still get through with economy, that's power.
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I paint as I want to with no holds barred. I am more contented lately than I have been for a long time about my work. But not dangerously so.
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I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.