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“We connect the dots in the drawing with our mind. We give them a meaning, a figurative sense, which is self-reflexive in that it creates us, because we are the experiencer of the moment.”

Giving Mind Self Moments Awareness Buddhism Drawing Dots

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You'll notice all around the Hindu temples couples, statues and drawings, in various erotic forms of love-making. This used to give the British a lot of trouble because they were kind of white and uptight. It didn't quite fit. How could a temple of God be covered with pictures of people, in their term, fornicating?”

People Giving Kind Form Used Term White Trouble Buddhism Couple Fit Various British Sexuality Drawing Temples Covered Erotic Statues Love Making Uptight Forms Of Love

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The true American dream not only provides the freedom to use your gifts and talents to achieve your highest goal but also gives you the freedom to fulfill your purpose in life. You are meant to work in ways that suit you, drawing on your natural talents and gifts. This work, when you find it and commit to it - even if only as a hobby - is the key to happiness.”

Source: What Makes the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement

“The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.”

Giving Beautiful Black White Pleasure Color Drawing Black And White Beautiful Colors

Book:On Poetry and Style

Source: On Poetry and Style

“Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.”

Giving Mean Literature Painting Shapes Perception Drawing Colour Sensations Concrete Abstraction

Author:Paul Cezanne

“Those who are not conversant in works of art are often surprised at the high value set by connoisseurs on drawings which appear careless, and in every respect unfinished; but they are truly valuable... they give the idea of a whole.”

Giving Art Ideas Whole Values Valuable Drawing Works Of Art Careless Unfinished Connoisseur

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

“A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.”

Men Giving Mystery Creating Models Accomplish Drawing Designer Another Man Refined Sculptors Artisans

Book:Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume

Source: Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume