#aw

This is a familiar syndrome. There is a stage with every drawing or painting when it looks banal and clumsy. It's worth pushing through that, working through the cliché to find out what made it a cliché in the first place. ↗

— Antony Sher

#cliché #drawing #painting #art

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. ↗

— Le Corbusier

#faster #i #leaves #less #lies

Instead of chasing the idea of truth, what we should be doing is embracing the medium of drawing and using it for a purpose that fulfils our needs as an artist or designer. ↗

— Peter Stanyer

#artist #design #drawing #truth #art

Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result. ↗

— Tommy Armour

#bodily #designed #golf #graceful #produce

O gentle vision in the dawn: My spirit over faint cool water glides, Child of the day, To thee; And thou art drawn By kindred impulse over silver tides The dreamy way To me. ↗

— Harold Monro

#elves #fairies #art

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#completely #drawn #feeling #free #give

An apocryphal story recounts the dilhemma of a man during the Civil War who could not decide whether to join the Confederate or Union forces. Finally he put on a gray coat and blue pants, and both sides shot him. ↗

— John Frohnmayer

#law #politics #art

You are pure awareness at center, human in appearance. ↗

— Robin Craig Clark

#motivation #nonduality #pure-awareness #self-help #art

It taught me that there are three versions of things: the one I see in my mind, and the one that carries onto the paper, and then what it ultimately becomes. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#drawing #art

When a beautiful blonde asks, you don't say no. ↗

— V.T. Davy

#channel #crime #detective #hard-boiled #islands