“Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way." ... "Surely a better time must be drawing nigh when godlike human beings will become truly humane, and learn to put their animal fellow mortals in their hearts instead of on their backs or in their dinners.” WayHumansHeartHuman BeingsAnimalFellowsDinnerDrawingMortalsVegetarianGlimpseHumaneGodlike Author:John Muir
“To see the human condition in the old woman, in the child, in the model on the stand, in that particular human being, and to let the hand trace it, this act of adoration is called, 'drawing from life.” HumansChildrenHandsHuman BeingsConditionsParticularModelsDrawingHuman ConditionAdorationOld Woman Author:Frederick Franck
“Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But in all these varied and exciting extensions of our experience we always come back tot the fact that we are human beings of such and such a size, biologically the same as primitive man, and that it is through drawing and observing, or observing and drawing, that we equate our bodies with our landscape.” MenHumansFactsBodyIndividualHuman BeingsCenturyFieldsMaterialsExcitingSizeWideDrawingSymbolsLandscapePrimitiveExtensionsSculptureObservingTwentieth CenturyFacetsCalligraphyPrimitive ManTots Author:Barbara Hepworth
“Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.” WritingFirstsHumansLanguageHuman BeingsTalkingDrawing Author:Marjane Satrapi
“Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.” WritingFirstsHumansRealityLanguageHuman BeingsDrawingTranscription Author:Marjane Satrapi