There can be no 'graduated exercises in drawing' leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.
I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing - without the traditional interruption of academic training.
Drawing teaches you to look at things properly and to understand form and structure.
There is, however, a change going on in the world. There's far more interest in drawing now than there has been in a long, long time. Schools are beginning to teach drawing again in a serious and meaningful way.
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.
I want to bring drawing back to the basics, make it about the pleasure that it can afford and remove the notion that it's some kind of precious or difficult activity. It's another way of telling a story.
I have been drawing all my life.
Drawing was the only thing I was any good at in school, but I never dreamt I would, or even could, spend my life doing it.
If you have an idea, you have to move on it, to make a gesture. Drawing is an immediate way of articulating that idea - of making a gesture that is both physical and intellectual.