tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post5846255413545323742..comments2023-06-13T08:29:39.914+00:00Comments on MAKING A MARK: Favourite quotes about drawing and sketchingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-37946595200716989322020-03-28T15:55:11.561+00:002020-03-28T15:55:11.561+00:00'Art is a line around your thoughts' Gusta...'Art is a line around your thoughts' Gustav Klimpt<br /><br />'I found I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for' Georgia O'Keeffe, one of my favourite artists.Jan Dicksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04562540379901671018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-55756364529944875242016-08-19T19:11:03.825+00:002016-08-19T19:11:03.825+00:00Draw for twenty minutes a day. If you don't fe...Draw for twenty minutes a day. If you don't feel like it, draw until you do. BWrayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06035353093395052891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-57744505669854484242013-12-17T18:34:48.951+00:002013-12-17T18:34:48.951+00:00The very act of drawing an object, however badly, ...<br />The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities. (Alain de Botton)<br /><br />I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen... (Frederick Franck)<br /><br />Draw on both sides of the line, not just what you're enclosing. The shape you're making on the outside is as important as the one you're making on the inside. (Leon Polk Smith)<br /><br /><br />magpiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16413562301341155670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-86452826123896802602013-12-13T22:49:10.336+00:002013-12-13T22:49:10.336+00:00An artist must have his measuring tools not in the...An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye. (Michelangelo) <br />Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him. (Franklin D. Roosevelt) <br />Both of theses comments speak volumes.<br />LouiseLouisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09387690055022636825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-30771878571061077602013-12-10T22:26:49.674+00:002013-12-10T22:26:49.674+00:00When I make my drawings... the path traced by my p...When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness. (Alberto Giacometti)<br /><br />Contour drawing helps you see that the things you are drawing aren't things but rather shapes that intertwine and connect. (Charles Reid)<br />Colours and Textureshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12792990102218724187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-90014664455394660702013-12-08T12:38:42.262+00:002013-12-08T12:38:42.262+00:00'I desperately needed something to hold onto, ...'I desperately needed something to hold onto, so I held onto my pencil' - Joann Sfar (Author and Illustrator of The Rabbi's Cat)Stepherz7https://www.blogger.com/profile/14033558691192036426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-72244981321096613192013-12-07T13:19:55.713+00:002013-12-07T13:19:55.713+00:00"Anything that passes before your eyes is a p..."Anything that passes before your eyes is a possible subject. Beauty may appear anywhere, at any time. You just have to be ready for it" <br />Kevin MacPhersonRebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13673780046536136782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-46314910892902920922013-12-07T08:55:48.911+00:002013-12-07T08:55:48.911+00:00Ingres advice to young Degas: Draw lines, many lin...Ingres advice to young Degas: Draw lines, many lines from nature and from memory. Then you will be a good painter.Astrid Volquardsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04559940005957492412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-22267997611230625022013-12-06T19:10:31.751+00:002013-12-06T19:10:31.751+00:00Keep them coming - we're getting some really g...Keep them coming - we're getting some really great ones!Making A Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13509483023337008890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-39340628446019285272013-12-06T18:34:43.320+00:002013-12-06T18:34:43.320+00:00Two I like from Degas because they also go beyond ...<br />Two I like from Degas because they also go beyond drawing. We are showing the world what and how we see, each of us ingdin our own unique way.<br /><br />"Drawing is not what one sees but what one can make others see"<br />Degas<br /><br />"Drawing is not a form it is a way of seeing a form" DegasDavid Teterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747334525619423349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-60068394444591417612013-12-06T18:05:16.878+00:002013-12-06T18:05:16.878+00:00One of my favourites:
"In spite of everythin...One of my favourites:<br /><br />"In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing." Vincent Van GoghAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13268271648751274940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-29359583581124014322013-12-06T11:37:24.713+00:002013-12-06T11:37:24.713+00:00There are many ways to draw beautifully.
It's...There are many ways to draw beautifully. <br />It's important to let the drawing be an investigation and sometimes, in order to investigate, you need to go off the path. <br />(Jacob Collins)jimserrettstudiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16604574528873628463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-19428408081665542662013-12-06T09:04:56.004+00:002013-12-06T09:04:56.004+00:00I`ve always liked the phrase " a language ma...I`ve always liked the phrase " a language manycoloured" ( James Joyce/ A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ). It is part of a much longer,complicated sentence, but always struck me as a good description of drawing and painting ....particularly drawing. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-77616263019595934352013-12-06T04:07:11.798+00:002013-12-06T04:07:11.798+00:00Nice one Bobbi!
Nice one Bobbi!<br />Making A Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13509483023337008890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-35338820599606047342013-12-06T03:24:07.017+00:002013-12-06T03:24:07.017+00:00Drawing is the artist's most direct and sponta...Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality. - Edgar DegasBobbi Heathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09235452539131042733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-43984472353639436772013-12-05T22:06:57.493+00:002013-12-05T22:06:57.493+00:00I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful a...I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing. (Vincent van Gogh)<br /><br />When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared back at me, incredulous, and said, 'You mean they forget?' (Howard Ikemoto)suessketchbloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09611461006873024308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-65443790852752377672013-12-05T21:25:21.403+00:002013-12-05T21:25:21.403+00:00I've always liked John Singer Sargent's A ...I've always liked John Singer Sargent's A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.<br />Jen Kirbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04447039486232238939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-40236542723482266062013-12-05T20:40:27.996+00:002013-12-05T20:40:27.996+00:00from Salvador Dali~
"drawing is the honesty o...from Salvador Dali~<br />"drawing is the honesty of the art. there is no possibility of cheating. it is either good or bad."<br /><br />i like this because it is SO true...if you do not have drawing skills or know basic composition elements, you can not produce good work, in my opinion!<br /><br /><br />Kathryn Hansenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13094419097977428535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-60083611867107266482013-12-05T19:12:10.126+00:002013-12-05T19:12:10.126+00:00Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Spanish, said
" Eve...Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Spanish, said<br />" Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up".<br />I think that this quote can be applied to drawing as well as painting or any of the arts. <br />As a child one draws with passion and abandonment<br />not fearing judgement and criticism. If one can retain that joy and wonder in adulthood that is the best gift in life!Mariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06589337019226530914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-78447090894260420482013-12-05T18:19:06.640+00:002013-12-05T18:19:06.640+00:00"Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter c..."Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint".<br />Arshile Gorky ( Vosdanig Adoian) Armenian ( 1904- 1948)Mariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06589337019226530914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-60634447083588355202013-12-05T18:14:09.858+00:002013-12-05T18:14:09.858+00:00'Drawing is all about mileage on the tip of yo...'Drawing is all about mileage on the tip of your pen', David Passalacqua USA, "The important thing is to do. and nothing else, be what it may' Pablo PicassoDon McNultyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12325800471172369503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-9023949819260200162013-12-05T16:51:12.865+00:002013-12-05T16:51:12.865+00:00"One must always draw, draw with the eyes, wh..."One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil"<br />Balthus<br />A favourite quote of mine as often I am unable to draw and paint when I want. If I see a wonderful subject I do so with my eyes - work out the lines, tonal studies, colours etc - all observational training.Vicki Lee Johnstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10409588969370991946noreply@blogger.com