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

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.

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.

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.

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.

These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message

I’d probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I’ve always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.

Everything I do is deeply rooted in my faith and especially in Jesus Christ.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

The end of the First World War had thrown Germany’s youth into great turmoil. The reins of power had fallen from the hands of a deeply disillusioned older generation, and the younger ones drew together in larger and smaller groups to blaze new paths or, at least, to discover a new star to steer by.

I think it’s like everything else; one shouldn’t dig too deeply.

The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone.

The catalyst that converts any physical location – any environment if you will – into a place, is the process of experiencing deeply.