Aesthetic Quote by Jean Dubuffet

I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw…

— Irving Stone

“No art takes places without inspiration. Every artist also needs effective knowledge of his or her tools (e.g., does a certain brush function well…

— Anonymous

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Any great art is meant to illuminate the human condition.

— Sterling K. Brown

I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to realize as sculpture... And I sometimes draw just…

— Henry Moore

There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.

— John French Sloan

I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with…

— Gerhard Richter

If you're drawing humans, it can be detrimental to be too naturalistic, which is like animating little corpses.

— Henry Selick

It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to…

— Marc Davis

I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.

— Glenn Ligon

The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.

— Svetlana Alexievich

The construction of the human figure, its tremendous variety of balance, of size, of rhythm, all those things make the human form much more…

— Henry Moore