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“So our real goal in studying a model is to draw not bones and muscle and insignificant details but rather squash and stretch and weight distribution, plus — just to keep life interesting — composition, shape and form, perspective, line and silhouette, tension, plans, and negative and positive shapes, to mention a few.”
― Walt Stanchfield, Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes Volume 1: Volume 1: The Walt Stanchfield Lectures

“Who of us knows just why we do what we do, much less another's whys, or what we're after? Art is not like that; cut and dried and hit-at like a bull's eye and done for a reason and explained away by this or that motive. It's climbing and striving for something always beyond.”
― Emily Carr, Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“We all have 10,000 bad drawings in us. The sooner we get them out the better.”
― Walt Stanchfield

“The sleep of reason brings forth monsters”
― James Randi, Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions