Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.

- Edgar Alwin Payne

Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who created it - can remeasure the inf…

- Edgar Alwin Payne

The average artist, if he chooses, could render an exact drawing of what he sees. Artistic work not only allows but demands some deviation from form …

- Edgar Alwin Payne

The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially.

- Edgar Alwin Payne

Departure from the literal aspect, rather than mechanical exactness, is the code of the true artist. However, departures are the result of studied in…

- Edgar Alwin Payne

The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature…

- Edgar Alwin Payne

The artist should always be the student.

- Edgar Alwin Payne

To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them.

- Edgar Alwin Payne