Overlapping shapes are a safer indication of depth than is linear perspective.

- Rex Brandt

Emotion doesn't have to be happiness.

- Rex Brandt

Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.

- Rex Brandt

The audience is astonishingly friendly and tolerant of even the slightest dab, but is limited in its willingness to look either deeply or at length.

- Rex Brandt

In the mirror of your paper you will discover your identity as an artist.

- Rex Brandt

We see light, not dark. But it is in the dark that we feel goblins and ghosts.

- Rex Brandt

After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

- Rex Brandt

Texture is most evident where dark meets light on the turning edge and at the outer edge. Experience has taught us to assume that the areas in betwee…

- Rex Brandt

The painting is usually finished before you are.

- Rex Brandt