Stevie Nicks Quotes

I often shoot with scissors in my eyes.

In art, practice always comes before theory.

For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?

This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.

I still come closest to success with drawing.

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

I have been drawing and creating visual works my entire life, as long as I can remember.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.

I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.

Growing up, I enjoyed drawing, but it was always in the service of an idea. I drew all the time, and I enjoyed making.

To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.

It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes. The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one's own hand - that is what is necessary.

I was never a good artist.

I've been drawing since I was five years old.

I made all sorts of things: drawings, sculptures - I was doing origami before I even knew the word. I was constantly creating.

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.

Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.

I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.