Books Quote by Giorgio Vasari

Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.

— Paula Rego

From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than the painter…

— Joshua Reynolds

All intervening steps, scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed work models, studies thoughts, conversations, are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist…

— Sol LeWitt

It is a wonderful thing in the process of writing when such paper characters are first sketched, and, when one is doing good work,…

— Gunter Grass

“Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see our creations…

— Brian A. McBride

“If the creative process is so powerful, it would be natural to wonder why many artists have difficulties in their lives. It is because…

— Robert Fritz

The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and…

— Carl Jung

Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.

— Eugene Delacroix

Some writers such as John Cheever and Raymond Carver seem to draw artistic energy from analyzing the realm of their own experiences - their…

— Amor Towles

Why an artist loves what they do is often so hard to describe.

— Elisabeth Moss

“Works of art are not born in flashes of inspiration but in daily fidelity.”

— Albert Camus

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

— Michelangelo