#or

You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#drawings #illustration #make #perfected #thousands

China is important to the world in that they are a force and on the move. Exposing them to figurative art opens up a potential for artistic expression far greater than anyone would ever have dreamed possible until today. It is this very spirit of the struggle and determination to triumph that inspires creative expression. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#art #artistic #artistic expression #china #creative

I can actually feel the interior body of a dancer. I have the ability to capture a split second... I want you to be hit with whatever the essence is of this sculpture. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#actually #body #capture #dancer #essence

I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn't teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my clients. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#art #bought #built #business #center

I was tired of illustration. You'd work so hard on a commission and it would go in to a magazine, and you'd turn the page and it was gone. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#go #gone #hard #i #illustration

I've had over a dozen models come in and pose fro me live for these new Cirque pieces. Cirque is a world-wide phenomenon and they are just incredible athletes. I've been to all the performances and am really fascinated by all of their productions. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#athletes #been #come #dozen #fascinated

There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#about #admirers #basis #between #collectors

These guys are just flying through the air and I'm capturing them in the split second and putting it into a work of art, via clay to the bronze. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#art #bronze #capturing #clay #flying

Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#cure #level #nothing #ocean #rise

I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men. ↗

— Andie MacDowell

#i #i think #innate #inner #inner voice