Andrew Loomis Quotes & Sayings

No "knack" of drawing heads can compete with sound knowledge. — Andrew Loomis

One's skill is never complete, one's knowledge is forever lacking, one's taste is invariably altered, one's opinion ever subject to controversy. There is a complete and constant urge towards improvement. — Andrew Loomis

It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw. — Andrew Loomis

A head is not drawn until you can feel the unseen side. — Andrew Loomis

To any man who has slaved to acquire skill in his art, it is most irritating to have his ability referred to as a "gift." — Andrew Loomis

I have never found a book that stressed the importance of myself as a caretaker of my ability, of staying healthy mentally and physically, or that gave me an inkling that my courage might be strained to the utmost. — Andrew Loomis

To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw. — Andrew Loomis

Observation and study are necessary to achieve mastery of light and form — Andrew Loomis

I feel that talent means little unless coupled with an insatiable desire to give an excellent personal demonstration of ability ... talent must be in company with a capacity for unlimited effort which provides the power that eventually hurdles the difficulties that would frustrate lukewarm enthusiasm. — Andrew Loomis

As a student I thought there was a formula of some kind that I would get hold of somewhere, and thereby become and artist. There is a formula, but it has not been in books. It is really plain old courage, standing on one's own feet, and forever seeking enlightenment; courage to develop your way, but learning from the other fellow; experimentation with your own ideas, observing for yourself, a rigid discipline of doing over that which you can improve. — Andrew Loomis

The difficulties of not knowing are always much greater than the effort of learning. — Andrew Loomis

If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it [the rules of perspective] now, and do not have them bothering you and your work for the rest of your life. — Andrew Loomis

There's only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation. — Andrew Loomis

Art without color would lose much of its purpose. — Andrew Loomis