Talent, don't bother about wether or not you have it. Just assume that you do, and forget about it. Talent is a word we use after someone has become …

- Richard Schmid

It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before he or she can ruin it.

- Richard Schmid

What sets you apart from the rest of humanity is your ability to give visual form to an idea - the skill to transform it into something more than mer…

- Richard Schmid

Paint like a pig eats.

- Richard Schmid

If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you don't, the result will look like…

- Richard Schmid

I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings.

- Richard Schmid

Make your art a gift of inspiration to others to work toward better things.

- Richard Schmid

Use lots of paint and don't worry, they will make more.

- Richard Schmid

When we are bursting with some wordless experience, Art is our voice, the song of the heart.

- Richard Schmid