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Woetoe
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Two more quotations of the book:
“I am, you ain’t, they ain’t” is the credo of the me, as it looks at the world without ever seeing it, without living in it, standing forever poised against it, fighting it.
How does one make progress in drawing? By making the eye-heart-hand reflex ever more sensitive, so that the hand may become ever more the willing tool of the eye.
— Apr 05, 2025 10:36AM
“I am, you ain’t, they ain’t” is the credo of the me, as it looks at the world without ever seeing it, without living in it, standing forever poised against it, fighting it.
How does one make progress in drawing? By making the eye-heart-hand reflex ever more sensitive, so that the hand may become ever more the willing tool of the eye.
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“I had painted and exhibited for years. I folded up my easel, closed my paint box, when I discovered that it was not really my aim to add to the world’s stock of art objects. I discovered that what I really wanted was to truly see before I die.”
— Apr 06, 2025 12:34AM
Woetoe
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Just let your hand move! Don’t check what gets onto the paper, it does not matter at all! Don’t try too hard, don’t “think” about what you’re drawing, just let the hand follow what the eye sees. Let it caress…
— Apr 05, 2025 03:55AM
Woetoe
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The introduction of the book describes the occasion where Frederick is giving a drawing workshop to a group of people with only one thing in common: they are not professional artists.
He has the students drawing from the Zen idea: The “Unborn” mind. By translating an object without the usual restrictions that the human mind often brings to the surface: needing control, self doubt and striving for success
— Apr 05, 2025 03:23AM
He has the students drawing from the Zen idea: The “Unborn” mind. By translating an object without the usual restrictions that the human mind often brings to the surface: needing control, self doubt and striving for success
