Tadao Ando Quotes

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

I always listen to music while I draw.

Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.

I start a picture and I finish it.

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

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see.

All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing is always my notation.

My sketchbooks are usually just a line on one page or a circle, which to most people must be totally meaningless. But to me, they are very important to the thing I am working on.

My wife will go, 'You know, you're drawing a shoe right now.' I do that all the time.

Painting on the ground was a cool challenge because you can't just stand back and see what you're doing.

When you're not hearing my voice, I'm working on art. So if you're not hearing me, I'm working for the people and getting inspired.

Your brain forms a story and, if you're lucky, there's a line where the story takes over the brain. You don't even know what you have.

If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.

My drawings are the result of my sculpture.

Drawing is the root of everything.

Usually I draw in relation to my painting, what I am working on at the time. On a lucky day a surprising balance of forms and spaces will appear... making itself, the image taking hold. This in turn moves me toward painting - anxious to get to the same place, with the actuality of paint and light.

What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to be sure that nothing evaded my grasp of it... My objective is to test to what extent my hands already feel what my eyes see.

Has your drawing the meaning you saw in the model at first?