“Truly color is vice! Of course, it can be, and has the right to be one of the finest virtues. Controlled by the strong hand and careful guidance of her Master drawing, color is a splendid Mistress, with a mate worthy of herself, her lover, but her Master likewise, the most magnificent Mistress possible, and the result is evident in all the glorious things that spring from their union.” HandsCoursesStrongResultsVirtueColorMastersLoversSpringUnionsVicesCarefulWorthyDrawingGuidanceGloriousControlledMatesMagnificentFinestEvidentMistressSplendidStrong Hands Author:James Whistler
“I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.” StillsUseResultsColorBearsFruitDrawingClosestDubious Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918 Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918
“Whether it is drawing or painting, skilled Artists usually deliver a faster result without jeopardizing the quality, simply because they don't have to waste their time on fixing mistakes.” ArtistResultsMistakeQualityPaintingWasteDrawingFasterFixing Author:Igor Babailov
“Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. The activity of the intuition consists in making spontaneous judgements which are not the result of conscious trains of reasoning. The exercise of ingenuity in mathematics consists in aiding the intuition through suitable arrangements of propositions, and perhaps geometrical figures or drawings.” MayTwoResultsFiguresExerciseActivityConsciousMathematicsTrainIntuitionDrawingMathematicalCombinationJudgementReasoningArrangementsSpontaneousPropositionsFacilityIngenuitySuitable Author:Alan Turing
“With respect to the use of this sparkling coloured material (butterfly wings around 1955, fh) - the constituent parts of which remain indistinguishable - with the aim of producing a very vivid effect of scintillation, I realised that, for me, this responds to needs of the same order as those that formerly led me, in many drawings and paintings, to organize my lines and patches of colour so that the objects represented would meld into everything around them, so that the result would be a sort of continuous, universal soup with an intensive flavour of life.” NeedsUseWould BeOrderLinesResultsEffectsObjectsPaintingMaterialsUniversalAimWingsDrawingColourButterflyOrganizeSoupVividPatchesRealisedConstituentsSparklingFlavourDrawing And PaintingButterfly Wings Author:Jean Dubuffet
“With experience it seems to be possible to control the flow of paint, to a great extent, and I don't use - I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident... it's quite different from working, say, from a still life where you set up objects and work directly from them. I do have a general notion of what I'm about and what the results will be. I approach painting in the same sense as one approaches drawing, that is, it's direct.” StillsDifferentUseSeemsCausesResultsObjectsPaintingApproachFlowDirectPaintNotionDenyAccidentsDrawingStill LifeExpressionismAbstract Expressionism Author:Jackson Pollock
“A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign of the operation of the mind, drawing the assent of a sufficient number of other minds so that the agreement will be widely operative. A convention is not a custom; a custom is a habit in which a sufficient number acquiesce. A custom can appear as a convention, but it is really a lesser act, the result of passive acceptance rather than of the imposition of design. It is the difference between learning to live by the annual flooding of the river or by a calendar.” WorldMindSocialDifferencesResultsNumbersDesignAcceptanceHabitRiversPatternsDrawingChosenOperationsSufficientAgreementLive ByCustomsConventionsPassiveCalendarsAnnualsFloodingImposition Author:A. Bartlett Giamatti