Filled Quote by William Gurstelle

“In notes for his treatise on painting, Leonardo recommended to young artists this practice of walking around town, finding people to use as models,…

— Walter Isaacson

Did you know that da Vinci was a painter, polymath, engineer, architect, biologist, and writer all rolled into one? He drew sketches of helicopters…

— Pranav Mistry

It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.

— Thomas Kinkade

I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction.

— Grant Morrison

Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a…

— John Howe

Every time I work on a project, I keep every little piece of paper.

— Micah Lexier

How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was right to…

— Jean Cocteau

“When Leonardo was painting The Last Supper (fig. 74), spectators would visit and sit quietly just so they could watch him work. The creation…

— Walter Isaacson

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

— Alberto Giacometti

I'm always looking at the computer. I make all of my work on the computer at some point or another. Almost all of the…

— Wade Guyton

Everybody faces a blank piece of paper, no matter what they've written or painted or composed before. I can't imagine approaching every single new…

— Stephen Sondheim

I really don't want to copy something to a great degree, but I love taking tiny ideas and putting them together.

— Joe Goddard