"Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye."
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"When you draw a nude, sketch the whole figure and nicely fit the members to it and to each other. Even though you may only finish one portion of the drawing, just make certain that all the parts hang together, so that the study will be useful to you in the future."
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"I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking."
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"A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished."
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"When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged. I love trying to render not just the object, but what it has been through."
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"To draw a tree, to pay such close attention to every aspect of a tree, is an act of reverence not only toward the tree, and toward the earth itself, but also our human connection to it. This is one of the magical things about drawing - it gives us almost visionary moments of connectedness."
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"The short winter’s day was drawing to a close. It seems to me sometimes that these are the only days I have ever known, and especially that most charming moment of all, just before night wipes them out."
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"The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions."
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"Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad."
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"Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are"
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"The writing for me is hard work and I always look forward to drawing the pictures."
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"By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company."
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"The light for drawing from nature should come from the North in order that it may not vary. And if you have it from the South, keep the window screened with cloth, so that with the sun shining the whole day the light may not vary. The height of the light so arranged as that every object shall cast a shadow on the ground of the same length as itself."
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"All art is but dirtying the paper delicately."
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"The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in the position of those men who did those wonderful drawings in Lascaux and Altimira!"
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"For being a bad student I was banished to the 'calaboose' - a bare cell with whitewashed walls and a bench to sit on. I liked it there, because I took along a sketch pad and drew incessantly I could have stayed there forever drawing without stopping"
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"I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist."
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"As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture."
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"You will never experience less reality than when you are watching a reality show. You're watching people who aren't actors, put into situations created by people who aren't writers and they're second guessing how they think you would like to see them behave if this were a real situation, which it's not. And you are passively observing this; watching an amateur production of nothing. It's like a photo of a drawing of a hologram."
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"If you can't draw something, just draw it."
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