Andrew Loomis famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw.
-- Andrew Loomis

#Draws
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.
-- Andrew Loomis

#Mean #Drawing #Perspective
Art without color would lose much of its purpose.
-- Andrew Loomis

#Art #Color #Purpose
To any man who has slaved to acquire skill in his art, it is most irritating to have his ability referred to as a â€œgift.â€
-- Andrew Loomis

#Art #Men #Skills
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.
-- Andrew Loomis

#Mean #Giving #Effort
Observation and study are necessary to achieve mastery of light and form
-- Andrew Loomis

#Light #Mastery #Study
A head is not drawn until you can feel the unseen side.
-- Andrew Loomis

#Unseen #Sides #Feels
The difficulties of not knowing are always much greater than the effort of learning.
-- Andrew Loomis

#Knowing #Effort #Difficulty
It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw.
-- Andrew Loomis

#Ninety #Cents #Draws

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
I think that for some people faith is good - they have something to draw to.
Armchair hater, I wouldn't piss on your coffin But when I see your picture I draw dicks on it.
I like to write and draw everything with sharpies. I even got one with my own name on it!
God draws straight with crooked lines.
Our fear of not mattering much has the potential to draw us away from what matters most.
I've felt depressed many times in my life, so I can draw on those times in my life when I need to.
All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
Experience is valuable only if it's imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning.

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