“Over the last forty years, many educators, decision-makers, and even some parents have come to regard the arts as peripheral, and let’s face it, frivolous—especially the visual arts, with their connotation of ”the starving artist” and the mistaken concept of… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
In early childhood, children develop a set of symbols that 'stand for' things they see in the world around them... Children are happy with symbolic drawing until about the age of eight or nine... when children develop a passion for realism. Our schools do not provide drawing instruction. Children try on their own to discover the secrets of realistic drawing,… — Betty Edwards Copy Share
An individual's ability to draw is... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from verbal, analytic… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
Be clear in your mind why learning to draw well is important. Drawing enables you to see in that special, epiphanous way that artists… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
As a teacher and parent, I've had a very personal interest in seeking new ways of teaching. Like most other teachers and parents, I've been well aware painfully so, at times that the whole teaching/learning process is extraordinarily imprecise, most of the time a hit-and-miss operation. Students may not learn what we think we are teaching them and what they… — Betty Edwards Copy Share
Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information. — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
“Over the last forty years, many educators, decision-makers, and even some parents have come to regard the arts as peripheral, and let’s face it,… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
As parents, we can do a great deal to further this goal by helping our children develop alternative ways of knowing the world verbally/analytically… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
As each new skill is learned, you will merge it with those previously learned until, one day, you are simply drawing - just as,… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
Creativity is the ability to find new solutions to a problem or new modes of expression; thus it brings into existence something new to… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
“Paper: Some inexpensive plain bond paper A pad of Strathmore Drawing Paper, 80 lb., 11" × 14" Pencils: A #2 ordinary yellow writing pencil… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers. — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
