There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has. You want a picture to seize you as forcibly as if a man had seized you by the shoulder! It should impress you like reality!
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The art of life is to show your hand.
To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
There is a satire that exists in 'My Arm,' but there is also an honoring of some of the stronger ideas that I've raided from visual art.
When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.
There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.