Millard Sheets Quotes

Design may be the logical solution to a problem, but it's never a formula. Design grows out of clarity of purpose.

Is your work an interpretation of your understanding of reality, or is it simply a picture of your feelings?

Good design is a great combination of common sense, unusual imagination, clarity of purpose–with a prerequisite knowledge of structure, values, color, aesthetic insight and a deep reverence for the love of life.

Drawing at its best is not what your eyes see but what our mind understands.

Art is many things but, directly or indirectly, it always describes the human condition.

Painting expresses the depth and insight, the spiritual quality of the artist. If art is about life, then, while the depth to which the artist has drunk from the well of life may not guarantee success, it must surely improve the quality of his/her work.

Your painting is a measure of your mind.