"As each new skill is learned, you will merge it with those previously learned until, one day, you are simply drawing - just as, one day, you found yourself simply driving without thinking about how to do it."

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Source : Betty Edwards (1989). “Drawing on the right side of the brain: a course in enhancing creativity and artistic confidence”, Jeremy P. Tarcher

Betty Edwards

#Thinking Quotes #Skills Quotes #Drawing Quotes

“I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.”
“Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
“What to us may seem like a tragedy when it happens eventually can form itself into a gift.”
“I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast.”

Source : "Fictional character: Eric Liddell". "Chariots of Fire", www.imdb.com. 1981.
“Golf is a difficult game, but it's a little easier if you trust your instincts. It's too hard a game to try to play like someone else.”

Source : Nancy Lopez (1989). “Nancy Lopez's the Complete Golfer”, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
“I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.”
“Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't.”

Source : Natalie Babbitt (2010). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.7, Macmillan
“How few successful men are interesting! Hannibal, Alcibiades, with Raleigh, Mithridates, and Napoleon, who would compare them for a moment with their mere conquerors?”

Source : Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1902). “Success”

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