“Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick or whatever. In sculpture you can get a rock. Writing you just need a pencil and paper.” NeedsWritingArtFilmFormPiecesRocksPaintingPaperPicksSticksPensPencilsSculptureChalk Author:Forest Whitaker
“The most interesting studio work, and perhaps the most practicable, is painting from pencil sketches and notes... It ensures the elimination of all facts but those essential to the effect.” FactsInterestingEffectsPaintingEssentialsNotesSimplicityStudiosPencilsMost InterestingElimination Author:Walter J. Phillips
“The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches with pencil.” FiguresPaintingPencils Author:E. J. Hughes
“Still I should paint my own places best; painting is with me but another word for feeling, and I associate "my careless boyhood" with all that lies on the banks of the Stour; those scenes made me a painter, and I am grateful; that is, I had often thought of pictures of them before ever I touched a pencil, and your picture ['The White Horse'] is one of the strongest instance I can recollect of it.” ShouldMadeStillsI CanFeelingsLyingMy OwnWhitePaintingSceneHorseGratefulPaintPainterInstanceTouchedStrongestAssociatesPencilsCarelessI Am GratefulBoyhoodWhite Horse Author:John Constable
“I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that. And I meditate, and one time when I was meditating, I started thinking, "Gee Gail, you love stories -- you read all the time. How come you never tell yourself a story?" While I should have been saying my mantra to myself, I started telling myself a story. It turned out to be an art appreciation book for kids with reproductions of famous artworks and pencil drawings that I did. I tried to get it published and was rejected wholesale.” ThinkingShouldYearsHas BeensArtBookStoriesKidsWantedPaintingShould HaveAppreciationDrawingLove StoryOne TimeRejectedPencilsShould Have BeenMantrasReproductionMeditatingArtworkWholesaleBooks For KidsDrawing And PaintingArt AppreciationGail Author:Gail Carson Levine
“Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.” ArtStudyDoorsColorPaintingWingsSticksTinyButterflyCanvasInsectsPencilsCombiningBarnsButterfly Wings Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct
“Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.” ThinkingWellsLongSometimesBigsChanceToo MuchOne ThingColorPaintingPaintWideLandscapeBroadsCanvasPencils Author:Joni Eareckson Tada
“Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to nimbleness,to grace, the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten; so painting teaches me the splendor of color and the expression of form, and as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art, I see the boundless opulence of the pencil, the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms.” ArtSelfSeemsEyeFormArtistStepsTeachGraceColorPaintingExpressionMastersGeniusHigherDancingDanceForgottenPossessionEducatedPencilsLimbsBoundlessSplendorOpulence Book:The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Most people don't realize the many steps that a pop-up goes through. There are a variety of "Dummies" (the sketch phase of the book). Then finally the pencil "dummy", then the finished art which is like painting pieces of a jig saw puzzle.” PeopleArtBookRealizingStepsSawsPiecesPaintingPopsFinishedVarietyPhasesPuzzlesPencilsDummy Author:Tomie dePaola
“From the mingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight, Such heav'nly figures from his pencil flow, So warm with light his blended colors glow. . . . . The glowing portraits, fresh from life, that bring Home to our hearts the truth from which they spring.” HeartHomeLightFiguresCreationColorPaintingSpringFlowSightWarmShadePortraitsPencilsGlowingFigure Painting Author:Lord Byron
“Banks wont even loan each other money, everybody's going broke, and here we are inside here, these people are going to be out on the street selling apples and pencils and they're still going to be buying paintings for this money, so I don't know what's going on in this world.” PeopleKnowsWorldStillsStreetsThis WorldPaintingSellingBrokeApplesBuyingPencilsLoan Author:Dennis Hopper