You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.
From Richard MacDonald
I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn't teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my clients.
I was tired of illustration. You'd work so hard on a commission and it would go in to a magazine, and you'd turn the page and it was gone.
The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job.
I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears they are so moved by what they see.
My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance.
I can actually feel the interior body of a dancer. I have the ability to capture a split second... I want you to be hit with whatever the essence is of this sculpture.
These guys are just flying through the air and I'm capturing them in the split second and putting it into a work of art, via clay to the bronze.
There are very few people who do what I do.
I'm always looking for the next challenge.
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