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“In the evening I go up in the desert and spend hours watching the sun go down, just enjoying it, and every day I go out and watch it again. I draw some and there is a little painting and so the days go by.”

Littles Enjoy Hours Watches Sun Painting Draws Evening Desert

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.”

Men Wells Young Painting Models Draws Young Man Over It Curtains

Book:Gauguin's Intimate Journals

Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals

“I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the common details.”

Beautiful Time Waiting Common Painting Scene Succeed Draws Details Veils

Book:Thomas Cole

Source: Thomas Cole

“It is the bareness of drawing that I like. The act of drawing is what locates, suggests, discovers. At times it seems enough to draw, without the distractions of color and mass. Yet it is an old ambition to make drawing and painting one.”

Enough Seems Color Painting Ambition Mass Draws Drawing Distraction Drawing And Painting

Book:The drawings of Philip Guston

Source: The drawings of Philip Guston

“Usually I draw in relation to my painting, what I am working on at the time. On a lucky day a surprising balance of forms and spaces will appear... making itself, the image taking hold. This in turn moves me toward painting - anxious to get to the same place, with the actuality of paint and light.”

Light Moving Form Turns Space Painting Balance Lucky Draws Relation Paint Anxious Surprising Actuality Methodology Lucky Day

Book:The drawings of Philip Guston

Source: The drawings of Philip Guston

“To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the interior form, the plan, the model. Look what remains after that! The drawing is three fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over my door to the atelier, I would write: School of drawing, and I'm certain that I would create painters.”

Ifs Writing Looks Mean Doe Ideas School Form Certain Three Half Plans Doors Painting Expression Models Draws Remains Drawing Painter Interiors

Author:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

“I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly.”

Ifs Looks My Own Rooms Deals Painting Draws Window Paint Curtains

Book:Picasso, Inside the Image: Prints from the Ludwig Museum, Cologne

Source: Picasso, Inside the Image: Prints from the Ludwig Museum, Cologne

“I have tried to draw the human effigy (and all the other subjects dealt with in my paintings) in an immediate and effective way without any reference to the aesthetic.”

Way Humans Subjects Painting Draws Aesthetic

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together.”

Wells Would Be Together Painting Masters Theory Draws Originals Copies

Book:Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of

Source: Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of

“I am biased towards the belief that every painter must be grounded in strong and faultless drawing skills, and until one has not experimented with all styles of painting and has not comprehended their potentialities one's work is not complete. Even an abstract painter must know how to draw as well as a figurative artist. As for me, drawing has never created any problem, since I know how to draw anatomy correctly if I had to, I understand the function of muscle groups and sculpture.”

Ifs Knows Wells Problem Artist Belief Strong Know How Groups Style Painting Skills Draws Function Drawing Painter Abstract Muscles Grounded Sculpture Anatomy Biased

Author:Guity Novin

“I like to draw, produce paintings, do something with my fingers - but I am very normal, down-to-earth person.”

Persons Earth Produce Painting Normal Draws Fingers Down To Earth

Author:Marion Bartoli

“I love Inuit art, and most anything you would find in a folk art museum, as well as children's art or children's book illustrators or illustrators in general - all the kinds of work that my paintings would draw comparisons to.”

Wells Kind Children Art Book Painting Draws Folks Comparison Museums Children's Books Illustrators Inuit Folk Art

Author:Neil Farber

“From since I could remember I've always been an artist, drawing, painting and so forth. I would also always draw made up rock n' roll characters in a band who each had their own style and personalities. I think by accident I was already becoming a fashion designer.”

Thinking Made Character Remember Artist Rocks Fashion Style Painting Personality Becoming Band Draws Accidents Drawing Designer Rock N Roll Fashion Designer

Author:Ashley Purdy

“The interesting thing is that in everyday life, I fail to see the most ordinary things. I often stumble and sometimes I even fall over. But when I draw or look at a painting, I go into a sort of overdrive and just see things differently than other people.”

People Looks Sometimes Fall Interesting Failing Painting Draws Ordinary Everyday Everyday Life Interesting Things Ordinary Things Overdrive

Author:Wolfgang Beltracchi

“If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.”

Ifs Painting Flower Draws Stuck Back Again

Author:Pablo Picasso

“I usually draw in silence, but listen to music or public radio when I'm painting, after all the important decisions have been made.”

Has Beens Made Important Decision Silence Painting Draws Radio Listening To Music Important Decisions Public Radio

Author:Sophie Blackall

“I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and female nudes are in the center of every painting. It's difficult and exciting to draw the nude. Why get so upset about this? It's our duty to break taboos.”

Ifs Looks Art School Difficult Break Painting Duty Draws Female Exciting Western Males Upset Friday Taboo Tuesday Art School

Author:Peter Greenaway

“If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as you photograph.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Painting Photography Draws Paint Photograph Drawing Print

Author:Bill Jay