It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't think there is such a thing as pure imagination. I think it's a combination of memory and invention.
Imagination tends to be truly useful if accompanied by the power of mental control - if the worlds in one's head can be purposefully manipulated and distinguished from the real one outside it.
I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.
Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm not sure what will come out.
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.
In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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