Carly Chaikin Quotes

In school, I never really grasped drawing the nude form.

Of course, in the art class, I was the model.

I used to draw a lot.

Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.

I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.

The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher who is there to move you. It's great. I did a tiny bit in the one school in Paris, and it was wonderful because you'd have a nude taking a crazy position, and you'd have 10 seconds to do a drawing. Then you'd do a one-minute drawing.

I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.

I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.

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.

As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.

Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals.

Artifice is art.

I was never a good artist.

Collage is not a kitchen sink; it's not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.

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

I'm not much of an art guy but I really do love Shelby and Sandy's work - they look like they're made on a computer but they're hand-painted.

Clare Henderson creates the most beautiful delicate prints and paintings.

In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

I used to paint.

Painting from life is a completely different monster, which I like. But because I've been painting from photography for so long, I've learned my best moves from photography.

I have sketched since a young age, so there's always been an artistic side, a visual side to my personality.

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

When you draw a nude, sketch the whole figure and nicely fit the members to it and to each other. Even though you may only finish one portion of the drawing, just make certain that all the parts hang together, so that the study will be useful to you in the future.

Photography is Art and Art is Photography.