“Be clear in your mind why learning to draw well is important. Drawing enables you to see in that special, epiphanous way that artists see, no matter what style you use to express your special insight.”

In early childhood, children develop a set of symbols that ‘stand for’ things they see in the world around them… Children are happy with symbolic drawing until about the age of eight or nine… when children develop a passion for realism.

We’ve got a name for sushi in Georgia… bait

Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers.

Creativity is the ability to find new solutions to a problem or new modes of expression; thus it brings into existence something new to the individual and to the culture.

Your goal in drawing should be to encounter the reality of experience… to see ever more clearly, ever more deeply.

As parents, we can do a great deal to further this goal by helping our children develop alternative ways of knowing the world verbally/analytically and visually/spatially.

Students may not learn what we think we are teaching them and what they learn may not be what we intended to teach them at all.

I’m just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that’s my way of thinking.

I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views and they must all be equally good.

Photography is not only drawing with light, though light is the indispensable agent of its being. It is modeling or sculpturing with light, to reproduce the plastic form of natural objects. It is painting with light.

Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.

I like charcoal drawing a lot. I’m not very good, but I always find myself buying canvases and paints whenever I’m on location, because I always have this ambition to fill the hotel room I’m in and turn it into an art studio.

In Miami they’re building all these hideous monstrosities. It’s just so easy to be an architect, once you’ve got the ability to do your computer drawings. They just knock off each other. There’s nothing creative in any of them.

Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.

I did gardening and cooking and drawing and reading to try take the pressure off the music – just being eclectic and putting the fun back in and bringing more innocence in again is really important.