“For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?” WritingYearsArtIdeasFeltTalkingKnowingProduceDrawsCriticsNo IdeaMistrustRhymingCouplets Author:Adam Gopnik
“The teacher showed us how to see proportions, relationships, light and shadow, negative space, and space between space - something I never noticed before! In one week, I went from not knowing how to draw to sketching a detailed portrait. It literally changed the way I see things.” WayLightSpaceKnowingTeacherWeekChangedDrawsShadowNegativeDrawingProportionNot KnowingPortraitsSpace BetweenSketchingLight And ShadowNegative Space Author:Daniel H. Pink
“I think you have to know these fellows definitely before you can draw them. When you start to caricature a person,you can't do it without knowing the person. Take Laurel and Hardy for example; everybody can see Laurel doing certain things because they know Laurel.” ThinkingKnowsPersonsCertainKnowingExampleDrawsFellowsAnimationCaricaturesHardyLaurelsLaurel And Hardy Author:Walt Disney
“Artists with the lack of proper education and experience of working from life will copy whatever is visible on the photograph, without knowing what's underneath. As a result, instead of creating the in-depth and full of character portrait, they draw a mask with no soul.” SoulCharacterArtistResultsKnowingCreatingDrawsDepthPhotographVisibleMaskCopiesPortraitsPortraiture Author:Igor Babailov
“What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly, if not viciously; not knowing that it requires as much talent to spend as to make.” IfsMenDoeIdeasWealthKnowingTalentDependsDrawsPrizeNot Knowing Author:Edwin Percy Whipple
“For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us.” LoveDoeFoundKnowingDraws Author:Thomas Aquinas
“After all, isn't that what really draws the line between childhood and adulthood, knowing that you are solely responsible for yourself? If so, then my childhood ended at fifteen.” IfsLinesKnowingChildhoodDrawsResponsibleAdulthoodFifteen Author:LIZ
“Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both pornography and SF, the problem lies in knowing exactly where to draw the line.” TryingProblemLyingDifficultLinesFictionKnowingDrawsScience FictionPornographyAttemptingUndertakings Author:Arthur C. Clarke
“Eleanor Marx was her father's first biographer. All subsequent biographies of Karl Marx, and most of Engels, draw on her work as their primary sources for the family history, often without knowing it. I think if she'd been a son, she would have been referenced more.” IfsThinkingFirstsHas BeensFatherKnowingSonSourceDrawsPrimariesBiographiesFamily HistoryEleanorBiographersEngelsPrimary Source Author:Rachel Holmes
“People sometimes see an image and without knowing the surrounding patterns draw false conclusions.” PeopleSometimesKnowingDrawsPatternsConclusion Author:Marianne Williamson