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Once my hand has drawn something my eye has observed, I know it by heart, and I can draw it again without a model. — David Hockney
I usually only draw myself in down periods... I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's have a look… — David Hockney
I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the… — Thomas Cole
Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life. — Sathya Sai Baba
Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well. — Robert Henri
A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator. — Alain de Botton
I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me,… — William Merritt Chase
Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the… — George Farquhar
A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A… — John Ford
I draw to shock myself out of a too-easy rhythm - I may begin with no conception whatever, an image emerges . I rub it… — Sean William Scott
About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I draw on my memories but blended with a lot of fantasy... — Bryan Adams
Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand… — Aaron Hill
everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will… — Brenda Ueland
Study your subject through half-closed eyes before starting to draw - you'll find that the lights and darks are exaggerated and easier to identify. — Stan Smith
Children should learn to draw as they learn to write, and such a mystery should not be made of it. They should be encouraged, not… — William Morris Hunt
You are to draw not reality, but the appearance of reality! — William Morris Hunt
I want to draw and study a few things closely by feeling, not thinking. — Marion Milner
For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like… — Adam Gopnik
Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that. — Adam Gopnik
The artists of Asia have spiritually realized form, rather than aesthetically invented or imitated form, and from them I have learned that art and nature… — Morris Graves
What intrigues us as a problem, and what will satisfy us as a solution, will depend upon the line we draw between what is already… — Nelson Goodman
It is the bareness of drawing that I like. The act of drawing is what locates, suggests, discovers. At times it seems enough to draw,… — Philip Guston
Usually I draw in relation to my painting, what I am working on at the time. On a lucky day a surprising balance of forms… — Philip Guston
Jas in the Arab language is despair, And Min the darkest meaning of a lie. Thus cried the Jessamine among the flowers, How justly doth… — Charles Godfrey Leland

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