“When I was a child of four I wasn't really drawing like a child, I wasn't sketching as a child. I would sketch and I was using perspective, the good relationship of the subject.” ChildrenFourSubjectsPerspectiveDrawingGood RelationshipSketching Author:Arman
“In 1978 I decided not to work with Man Ray as an act of self-discipline. I didn't want to rely on him. Man Ray hated not working, though. He would come into my studio, see me drawing or working on photographs, and just slump down at my feet with a big sigh. Fortunately for both of us the year ended. Polaroid had invented a new camera, the twenty-by-twenty-four, and I was invited to Cambridge, Mass., to experiment with it. Naturally, I took Man Ray and we were working again.” MenWantYearsSelfBigsFourFeetDisciplineMassDecidedTwentiesCamerasPhotographStudiosDrawingExperimentsHatedRelyRaysSelf DisciplineSighInvitedCambridgeSlumpsPolaroids Author:William Wegman
“Scilurus on his death-bed, being about to leave four-score sons surviving, offered a bundle of darts to each of them, and bade them break them. When all refused, drawing out one by one, he easily broke them, thus teaching them that if they held together, they would continue strong; but if they fell out and were divided, they would become weak.” IfsTogetherStrongBreakFourTeachingSonBedWeakDrawingBrokeScoreDividedSurvivingBundlesDartsDeath Bed Book:Plutarch's Morals Source: Plutarch's Morals
“What actually happened was that Rolling Stone paid me fifteen hundred dollars for the use of all the drawings - about twenty four of them - and then offered to buy the originals from me, which my agent urged 'was a good move!'. He sold the whole damn treasure trove to Jann Wenner for the princely sum of sixty dollars per drawing. I rue the day I let him convince me.” WholeUseMovingFourHappenedHundredStonesPaidTwentiesOriginalsDollarsDrawingTreasureAgentsDamnConvinceSixtyFifteenRollingRolling StonesRue Author:Ralph Steadman
“I was raised by drag queens, practically ... my mother died when I was four-years-old, so I was effectively raised by a bunch of different people. A lot of those people were friends of my sister, Kathleen, who had all these gay friends. She would baby-sit me everyday, and she would take me over to her friend's houses with all kinds of things going on: tucking, and eyebrow drawing, waxing, all sorts of things. I was literally raised by gay men.” PeopleMenYearsKindDifferentMotherHouseFourBabyGayDiedRaisedEverydayDrawingBunchAll KindsQueensTake MeMy SisterFour YearsDragDifferent PeoplesEyebrowsGay MenMother DiedDrag QueenGay FriendWaxing Author:Ellen Pompeo
“I call it 'new forms'. When you're starting out, they ask you to do four or five minute sets, but once you're a headliner, you do like 90 minutes. I try to think of different things to divvy up the show, like doing drawings, playing music... I gotta carry the show, that's the problem.” ThinkingTryingDifferentShowsProblemFormAsksFiveFourMinutesStartingDrawingDifferent ThingsFive MinutesPlaying MusicStarting Out Author:Demetri Martin
“There are only five things really worth drawing; four of them are pretty girls and the fifth is cats.” GirlFiveFourCatDrawingFifthPretty Girl Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“When I found out after that first successful exhibition that the gallery wanted me to do another show like the first one, I come out two years later with four 6-foot drawings of classical nudes masturbating. The gallery director flipped the freak out!” YearsFirstsTwoShowsWantedFoundSuccessfulFourFeetDirectorsDrawingTwo YearsFreakGalleryExhibitionsFlipped Author:Betty Dodson