Deanna Petherbridge famous quotes

In my work I've never done preliminary drawing, because it's sometimes difficult to repeat something or to continue when the urgency's gone.
-- Deanna Petherbridge

#Drawing #Gone #Done

I work on drawing as a final product.
-- Deanna Petherbridge

#Drawing #Finals

It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing.
-- Deanna Petherbridge

#Art #Writing #Sleep

It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I was once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous influence; that I've been told I was on the verge of insanity, that my painting was nothing but meaningless daubs. Lawren Harris, the man most responsible for drawing the Group of Seven together, was accused of something perilously close to treason - his paintings, said his severest critics, were discouraging immigration.

Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.

I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right.

Its all gone pretty fast. I dont want to move on, but I know I have to.

You know that saying about how you don't know what you have until it's gone-I already did know what I had, and now that she's gone, I know even more.

Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent.

The sun in my life, it is gone, it is gone

I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago.

Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.

I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.