Robert Bateman Quotes
If you find yourself worrying, go outside, take three breaths, address a tree and quietly say, 'Thank you.' If you can't find a tree, a dandelion will do... Nature is magic.
I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became a geography teacher so that I could get free field trips into the wilderness to paint.
To me the most important thing in a piece of art is the thought. Technique is totally secondary.
I've never thought sitting around worrying helps anything, except to help shorten your life.
It doesn't take more skill to paint hundreds of strokes rather than one right stroke but it takes more patience.
A muse comes down from Mount Olympus and changes my attitude, cheering me up - it's an inner intuition, suddenly giving a breakthrough to be able to move ahead.
When you get to be my age, you begin to count how many Mays you have left - the best time of year for flowers and birds in North America.
Children don't play outside enough. For hundreds of thousands of years young people spent time outside - until 15 years ago.
After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s, and I haven't changed my style since.
Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm frustrated I put one down and begin another.
Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it's very important for the spirit and therefore the health.
In our instant pudding world, everything is sweet, smooth, very convenient and fast. There are lots of assorted flavors, but they're all artificial.
