Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.
I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so effortlessly.
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.
Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.
Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.
Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.
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.
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