Draftsmanship Quotes & Sayings

How would she know the truths from the untruths? — Ruta Sepetys

It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it. — Jack Kirby

Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith. — Garth Brooks

The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all other models; and always rely on this with a stout heart, especially as you begin to gain some judgment in draftsmanship. — Cennino Cennini

My eyes darted to her, dreading to see the pain I knew I would find. Please, Melanie, you have to know I only wanted this with you.
I couldn't say the words out loud, but I prayed she would understand, that she could see it in my eyes. — A.L. Jackson

Preparation 500 is a cow horn packed with the manure of lactating bovines
no bullshit
and buried two and a half to five feet underground for the winter. — Katherine Cole

Beyond aspects of pain that are physical, thought Oppenheimer, sickness or injury or privation, beyond the so-called obvious, suffering can be a work of art. It can be made of buried and rising things, helpless and undiscovered, song of frustrated want, silence after desire. It can be the test of the self falling short, constrained, distorted, disturbed or rebuffed, the vacuum left by longing, call without an answer. — Lydia Millet

I didn't used to think about politics much, or social issues. I was a teenager, writing about girls. — Conor Oberst

Picasso's superhuman gift for draftsmanship might have made him lazy about pursuing the full potential of color. It was not unusual for him to build a composition by first outlining figures and objects in black and then filling the interstices in a perfunctory manner that can put one in mind of a museum-shop coloring book. — Martin Filler

If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never. All I would ever write would be stuff that my fingers easily fall into. — Fred Frith

For a true work of creativity, you must reach beyond yourself to bring correct draftsmanship together with strong composition and lifelike colors. — Doug Dawson