Elisabeth Cummings Quotes on Art

Elisabeth Cummings is a famous Australian painter and printmaker. She is best known for her depictions of the Australian landscape in both painting and printmaking. Famous Elisabeth Cummings works include “Harbour Lights”, “Journey through the studio”, “Stones and Wild Flowers”, “Studio In The Bush”, “Arkaroola Landscape” and “After the wet, Elcho Island”.

Mini biography: Born Elisabeth Cummings on the 3rd of June, 1934 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Cummings is one the most respected working artists in Australia with works hanging in all major public art collections throughout the country. Her works regularly sell for tens of thousands of dollars at auction and continue to increase in value.

List of Elisabeth Cummings Art Quotes

I know it should be a time of reassessment and perhaps a time of maybe a big change. I never managed that. I’m not good at making big jumps. It’s a slow process. Elisabeth Cummings

With printmaking, of course, with a three-plate print, the color is limited. Working out what to do with color when you’re used to having a huge range, and having to work out how to get what you can out of that limitation is quite a good challenge. Elisabeth Cummings

Sometimes you really feel you’re getting through, making a connection with a student or a painter and you probably haven’t at all. And then somebody out of left field comes up to you many years later and says that you really opened some door for them. And you thought you were absolutely not getting through to them at all. Elisabeth Cummings

I hope to capture a sense of the place I’ve been in; I do hope to do that. But of course when I get going the painting has it’s own life and it starts demanding certain things itself. There is that dialogue between the painting and memory itself. Sometimes the painting takes over and goes in it’s own direction. Elisabeth Cummings

Kokoschka went round to each student every day, he was amazing.. he was an old man and if he liked your drawing he’d put ‘OK’ on it and gave you a lolly. Elisabeth Cummings

I’ve never been tempted to leave, no. Living here, bushfires.. is just something one lives within the summer, that possibility of bushfire. Elisabeth Cummings

I always wanted to get to Europe when I was younger and I did, but that’s what I missed, the Australian bush and the Australian land. So I’ve been exploring Australia these last few years, and there’s a lot to see, there’s so much to see. Elisabeth Cummings

I think everything you look at influences you in some way. To look at a painting that’s a fantastic painting, one hopes. Elisabeth Cummings

Bonnard and Vuillard were a huge influence at that time. They were the painters I looked at and funnily enough they are still the ones I respond to a lot. Elisabeth Cummings

Elisabeth Cummings Self Portrait Print

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