8 quotes found
Artist · American
American artist
“No "knack" of drawing heads can compete with sound knowledge.”
“It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw.”
“Theres only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation.”
“There’s only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation.”
“Ones skill is never complete, ones knowledge is forever lacking, ones taste is invariably altered, ones opinion ever subject to controversy. There is a complete and constant urge towards improvement.”
“As a student I thought there was a formula of some kind that I would get hold of somewhere, and thereby become and artist. There is a formula, but it has not been in books. It is really plain old c...”
“I have never found a book that stressed the importance of myself as a caretaker of my ability, of staying healthy mentally and physically, or that gave me an inkling that my courage might be strain...”
“One’s skill is never complete, one’s knowledge is forever lacking, one’s taste is invariably altered, one’s opinion ever subject to controversy. There is a complete and constant urge towards improv...”
