Andrew To
Andrew To
Andrew Tois a member of the Wong Tai Sin District Council, Hong Kong. Of Hakka ancestry, he is the former chairman of League of Social Democrats from 2010 to 2011, succeeding Wong Yuk-man. His wife, Jackie Hung, was a leader of Civil Human Rights Front and Justice and Peace Commission of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese...
juicy painter
I am not a juicy painter.
wall clothes terrible
To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.
ice snow tree
With watercolour, you can pick up the atmosphere, the temperature, the sound of snow shifting through the trees or over the ice of a small pond or against a windowpane. Watercolour perfectly expresses the free side of my nature.
father imagination world
I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.
love color mad
I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad.
design balance careful
It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.
superficial-things technique would-be
To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.
lines moderation
Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.
painting mood objects
I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.
knights drawing undisciplined
And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.
deception foils pencils
My pencil is like a fencer's foil.
player mirrors lines
There's a quote from Hamlet that is my guide... He tells the players not to exaggerate but to hold a mirror up to nature. Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.
sheep ifs asks
Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.
this-life dies hard
If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.