Drawing Quote by Robert Genn Download Open image “For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.” — Robert Genn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Drawing Freshness Inspirational Spontaneity Tyranny
A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues. — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
Drawing Is An Escape From All The Unecessary Things In Life That Get In The Way Of Being Free — Jamie Hewlett Copy Share Image
Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was… — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic. — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw. — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. — John Berger Copy Share Image
Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Some drawings are better than others... Some are utterly spoiled... I keep them all. I find a use sometimes even for the worst drawing...… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
The history of drawing is a history of 'realities'. Every age has its own conceptions, held to be true at that time, believed to… — Howard Scott Warshaw Copy Share Image
I shun drawing which is too easily formulated. It does not seem fertilized enough to produce consequences, and a drawing should be a provider… — Rico Lebrun Copy Share Image
We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself. — Taylor Hackford Copy Share Image
It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot.… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
The big problem for comic art is you don't want to overwork it. If a drawing is overworked it isn't funny. It's the spontaneity… — Edward Sorel Copy Share Image
Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . .… — Giacomo Puccini Copy Share Image
She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she had that same diligence in… — Laura Joplin Copy Share Image
Being on a trapeze is like dreaming. I feel totally outside of myself when I'm flying. You know, designing shoes, my imagination is flying… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
