"Study your subject through half-closed eyes before starting……" — Stan Smith
"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."
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16 Quotes by Stan Smith
Stan Smith has 16 quotes on this site.
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Winning is great, but it's the l9ong road to get there that makes it worthwhile.
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Son, feelings are what women have. They come from their ovaries.
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Hey, all I was trying to do was keep my country and my family safe!
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God pays twice as much attention on Christmas, like the media when a white kid goes missing.
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Laughter is infectious, like small pox or gay.
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A lot of people now think Im a shoe. They dont even know I was a tennis player. The shoe…
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When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as…
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If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it.
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Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around…
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Sweeping gestures from the shoulder allow you to make generous marks, well suited to large scale work. You don't get…
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Spaces between the forms, or the negative shapes, play just as great a role as the positives and they enable…
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In the real world there are many tones, from white at one extreme, through a large number of medium tones…
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More Closed Quotes
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Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.
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I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors.
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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that…
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What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between…
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What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The…
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A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by…
— Spiro T. Agnew
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There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition.…
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And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying…
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open…
— George H. W. Bush
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We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is…
— Paul Cellucci
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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