William Walker > Quotes

“The true art of seeing and enjoying rests chiefly in sensitiveness and power of sympathy, and the true value of observation is in the noble thoughts that it excites within us.”
― William Walker, Handbook of Drawing

“It is an optical fact that no two persons ever saw the same rainbow, and it is equally true that no two men ever saw the same appearance in any object.”
― William Walker, Handbook of Drawing

“Language alone is one of the worst means of expressing form, while drawing is incomparably the best.”
― William Walker, Handbook of Drawing

“In all true artistic feeling, the pursuit, not the result, is the reward; for where Art is rightly pursued, it produces a continual satisfaction in the fact that, however slow, there is progress, and that progress is sure; and although the work done may have no mercantile value whatever, it may be regarded as the effort of an immortal mind striving to improve itself, and, therefore, precious.”
― William Walker, Handbook of Drawing

“There is much truth in the remark that we see only that which we look for, and to look energetically we must consciously look for something.”
― William Walker, Handbook of Drawing