Andrew Loomis
To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw.Collection: Learning
To any man who has slaved to acquire skill in his art, it is most irritating to have his ability referred to as a “gift.”Collection: Art
I feel that talent means little unless coupled with an insatiable desire to give an excellent personal demonstration of ability...talent must be in company with a capacity for unlimited effort which provides the power that eventually hurdles the difficulties that would frustrate lukewarm enthusiasm.Collection: Mean
The difficulties of not knowing are always much greater than the effort of learning.Collection: Knowing
It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw.Collection: Ninety
A head is not drawn until you can feel the unseen side.Collection: Unseen
Observation and study are necessary to achieve mastery of light and formCollection: Light
If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it [the rules of perspective] now, and do not have them bothering you and your work for the rest of your life.Collection: Mean
Art without color would lose much of its purpose.Collection: Art