Robert Beverly Hale famous quotes

First we draw what we see; then we draw what we know; finally we see what we know.
-- Robert Beverly Hale

#Firsts #Draws

First you draw what you see. Next, you draw what you know, and only then will you know what it is that you see.
-- Robert Beverly Hale

#Firsts #Next #Draws

An artist sees things not as they are, but as he is.
-- Robert Beverly Hale

#Artist #Vision

Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it into your subconscious, which is graceful. But that takes time.
-- Robert Beverly Hale

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Am I the kind of person I want my eternal companion to be?
-- Robert Beverly Hale

#Want #Kind #Companion

Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.

This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.

It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.

Strip it all down to essentials and draw the hell out of what's left.

God draws straight with crooked lines.

To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw.