Paul Laseau famous quotes

Sketching is a continuing source of learning rather than a string of performances.
-- Paul Laseau

#Drawing #Sketching #Source

With pencil there is a tendency to be timid, either using very faint lines or erasing bad lines... Line sketching tends to emphasize the structure of a drawing rather than the nuances of media..
-- Paul Laseau

#Media #Drawing #Lines

Please yourself, not others... It must first work for you if it is ever to be useful to others.
-- Paul Laseau

#Firsts #Please #Please Yourself

Focus on the opportunities, not on the constraints.
-- Paul Laseau

#Opportunity #Focus #Constraints

Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists... understand that successful artistic creativity depends upon extensive visual exposure.
-- Paul Laseau

#Reading #Writing #Creativity

The permanence of ink encourages one to "go for it," to try to put the line right where it should be... continued attempts to place lines accurately build the eye-hand coordination necessary for sketching.
-- Paul Laseau

#Eye #Hands #Trying

Sketching on a regular basis requires you to pay close attention to the visual world around you. With practice, you begin to see things you never noticed before.
-- Paul Laseau

#Practice #Attention #World

While perspective is a handy device to construct imagined spaces, it is not useful, and possibly detrimental, to sketching existing environments.
-- Paul Laseau

#Space #Perspective #Sketching

We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.

Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work... things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building.

It is a matter mostly of having the time to spare from my finished paintings to put in on travelling and sketching out of doors.

Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.

The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art.

I studied to be an architect. And I find tremendous similarities between building a company and the design process. Businesses have to do their planning on the fly in a fashion similar to an architect sketching.

Whatever the scenario, the dynamism of developing nations, their demographics and competitive power are great sources for superiority.

It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.

Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.

Streams may spring from one source and yet some may be clear and some be foul.