Gene Black famous quotes

In times of stress drawing is a way of relieving tension.
-- Gene Black

#Stress #Drawing #Way

If some of the greats had followed the traditional ways we would be missing so much fine art.
-- Gene Black

#Art #Missing #Would Be

I discover methods for myself and then read books that describe 'my' method. This leads me to believe that the creative well is shared in some magical way.
-- Gene Black

#Book #Believe #Discovery

Draw, as much and as often as you can. When drawing lies fallow, the skill diminishes.
-- Gene Black

#Lying #Skills #Drawing

There is joy in feeling the bristles of a quality brush, seeing the richness and lush color of truly good pigment flowing onto the paper or canvas. The cheap stuff just makes for harder work and lesser results.
-- Gene Black

#Color #Joy #Feelings

Too much verbal stimulation causes the work to suffer.
-- Gene Black

#Suffering #Too Much #Causes

I collect words and phrases for naming the children of my brush.
-- Gene Black

#Children #Phrases #Brushes

No one can escape stress, but you can learn to cope with it. Practice positive thinking. . . seize control in small ways.

Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.

The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.

When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.

If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.

I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.

In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this way the spiritual master can sit down in a solitary place and render nirjana-bhajana.

To justify God's ways to man.

I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.