“When you draw a crowd of people in a street or room or landscape, decide whether you want to say that the people dominate the place or that the place is more important than the people.” PeopleWantImportantRoomsStreetsDrawsImportanceCrowdsLandscape Author:John French Sloan
“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.” IfsLooksMy OwnRoomsDealsPaintingDrawsWindowPaintCurtains Book:Picasso, Inside the Image: Prints from the Ludwig Museum, Cologne Source: Picasso, Inside the Image: Prints from the Ludwig Museum, Cologne
“Nobody draws the light for covered wine rooms from the south or west, but rather from the north, since that quarter is never subject to change but is always constant and unshifting. So it is with granaries: grain exposed to the sun's course soon loses its good quality, and provisions and fruit, unless stored in a place unexposed to the sun's course, do not keep long.” LongLightCoursesLosesRoomsQualitySunSubjectsDrawsWineConstantWestSouthFruitCoveredExposedQuartersGrainProvisionGood QualityRed Wine Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and keep us engaged with Him; it will take our attention from ourselves and give the Spirit room in our hearts.” GivingHeartSpiritPrayerRoomsAttentionTeachPrayingDrawsEngagedThank GodThankfulness Author:Andy Murray