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Mary Beth McKenzie Quotes

Leaving some areas less finished in a painting, or more out of focus than others, allows the imagination to finish them and gives more importance to the detailed parts.

Leaving some areas less finished in a painting, or more out of focus than others, allows the imagination to finish them and gives more importance to the detailed parts.

Mary Beth McKenzie
Giving, Imagination, Focus

Most beginners are too anxious for results. Real progress takes place over a long period of time.

Mary Beth McKenzie
Real, Long, Anxiety

I always work directly from life, partly because I really enjoy having an interaction with the person in front of me but also because I love having a direct response to shape and color.

Mary Beth McKenzie
Color, Portraiture, Shapes

Sometimes working on one painting will help solve a problem in another painting.

Mary Beth McKenzie
Helping, Painting, Problem

Everything in painting is about relationship, so I judge each area by its relationship to the surrounding areas.

Mary Beth McKenzie
Judging, Painting, Areas

Nothing is more beautiful than a line that brings out a form.

Mary Beth McKenzie
Beautiful, Lines, Form
Mary Beth Mckenzie (1987). “Painterly Approach”, Watson-Guptill

You have to evolve as an artist, and this is really a lifelong process.

Mary Beth McKenzie
Artist, Evolution, Process
Mary Beth Mckenzie (1987). “Painterly Approach”, Watson-Guptill

A painting has its own existence and reality, and I make changes freely to meet the painting's needs. This sometimes takes me in another direction.

Mary Beth McKenzie
Change, Reality, Needs

I usually start by doing one or more color studies of the subject on a piece of canvas taped to cardboard.

Mary Beth McKenzie
Color, Pieces, Study

Artists make things so much easier for themselves when they learn to trust their eyes.

Mary Beth McKenzie
Eye, Artist, Easier

Cats sleep in a state of total abandon, and I find that state very interesting in people as well.

Mary Beth McKenzie
Sleep, Cat, People

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