Mary Whyte > Quotes

“Success is measured not in how much we accomplish, but in how much we overcome.”
― Mary Whyte, An Artist's Way Of Seeing

“The colors of our life are always with us. We are made of them, and they are made of us. The night my mother died, a full moon filled the sky with a gentle violet, the color of an orchid in its deepest hidden part. I stood at the window with the realization that my mother was gone, but that I would always have that color of the sky.”
― Mary Whyte, An Artist's Way Of Seeing

“Painting is an invention. Your signature is added in the first stroke. Don't worry about finding your personal style, since it is already there. Worry about whether you are being true to it. As another artist once perfectly described it, true painting happens when we become poets not journalists.”
― Mary Whyte, An Artist's Way Of Seeing