“Symphony is the ability to see the big picture, connect the dots, combine disparate things into something new. Visual artists in particular are good at seeing how the pieces come together. I experienced this myself by trying to learn to draw.” TryingBigsTogetherArtistAbilityPiecesSeeingParticularDrawsVisualsSomething NewSymphonyDotsBig PictureVisual ArtAbility To SeeVisual Artist Author:Daniel H. Pink
“No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of paper and a pencil or paints.” LongI CanJobsPiecesPaperDrawsPaintDrawingPencils Author:John Newman
“My father would sit and design furniture and cabinets - he was a carpenter and cabinet maker - and I would ask for my own piece of paper and pencil. And when I would say, 'What should I draw?' he would push a cartoon under my nose and say, 'Here, draw this.' So the cartoon became a kind of focus of attention.” ShouldKindAsksFatherMy OwnAttentionFocusPiecesDesignPaperDrawsDrawingNosesMakersShould ICartoonPencilsFurnitureCabinetsCarpenterPaper And Pencil Author:Burne Hogarth
“A good-looking piece of scenery anywhere delights the eye and elevates the spirits. Some of us, crude creatures that we are, are merely excited; finer souls draw ethical and spiritual nutrients from the sight.” SoulEyeSpiritualSpiritPiecesCreaturesDrawsSightDelightExcitedEthicalLooking GoodCrudeSceneryNutrients Author:Barbara Holland
“Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit of burnt wood was also good because I was drawing burnt wood with a piece of wood. I wanted to do black and white. After using color, I thought black and white would be good. You can have color in black and white. There is color in them, actually.” DoeIdeasWould BeWantedFeltBitsBlackWhitePiecesColorDrawsWoodsBe GoodDrawingLandscapeBlack And WhiteNew Ideas Author:David Hockney
“A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images; they fall to pieces, turn out to be sickly and pale, convince no one. Works which draw on truth and present it to us in live and concentrated form grip us, compellingly involve us, and no one ever, not even ages hence, will come forth to refute them.” ArtAgeFormTurnsFallPiecesDrawsConceptsTestsConvinceWorks Of ArtArtificialPaleVerification Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“When you live from freelance check to freelance check, your mind is always on "What's the next piece I'm going to write, or draw, that'll pay this month's rent?" And so going out to play ball with my kids was a low priority.” WritingMindPlayKidsNextPayPiecesMonthsLowsDrawsBallsPrioritiesChecksGoing Out Author:Al Jaffee
“If I have a blank piece of paper and I draw a red figure, immediately this brings sounds and shapes to my mind. I tried to make a film in which every component supports the others while giving each other space and stimulating the creation of what's yet to come.” IfsGivingMindFilmSoundSpaceSupportPiecesFiguresCreationShapesPaperDrawsRedBlankComponents Author:Alex Abreu
“If you are writing a story and trying to draw an audience to come and hear you tell it, it's got to in some way relate to them. Who wants to come and hear about your specific problems? It's not therapy - it's supposed to be a communal piece of entertainment.” IfsWayWantWritingTryingStoriesProblemAudiencePiecesDrawsEntertainmentSupposed To BeRelateTherapy Author:Matt Damon