#drawing

I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right. ↗

— Alan Lee

#nature #trees #nature

I spend as much time as I can sketching from nature, Dartmoor contains such a rich variety of landscape, as many boulders, foaming rivers and twisted trees as my heart could ever desire. . . . When I look into a river, I feel I could spend a whole lifetime just painting that river. ↗

— Alan Lee

#drawing #illustrating #nature #nature

I believe that most of us, students and artists alike, ought to concern ourselves less with what we think is the right way to draw and more with letting our feelings flow through our hand. In this way, we stretch our dynamic nature. Our larger goal should be to draw in a way that expresses our vision. ↗

— Bert Dodson

#expressing #nature

Over the last forty years, many educators, decision-makers, and even some parents have come to regard the arts as peripheral, and let’s face it, frivolous—especially the visual arts, with their connotation of ”the starving artist” and the mistaken concept of necessary talent ↗

— Betty Edwards

#educators #public-schools #starving-artist #talent #art

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#i #i wish #integrated #more #sometimes

I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#bored #drawing #get #i #men

You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form. ↗

— Pierre Bonnard

#drawing #form #logic #more #reason

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#company #conversation #displaying #drawing #gift

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity? ↗

— Cesar Chavez

#better #book #books #consist #drawing

And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea, and through the years and through the negotiations of getting the permit, you see that every detail is now clarified. ↗

— Christo

#clarified #collages #detail #drawings #early