Andrew Loomis Quotes
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Fill in the shapes with the right tones and the form takes care of itself.
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A head is not drawn until you can feel the unseen side.
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The difficulties of not knowing are always much greater than the effort of learning.
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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.
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No matter how great your talent, talent has to work with knowledge to do anything well.
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Art without color would lose much of its purpose.
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Observation and study are necessary to achieve mastery of light and form.
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Since the knowledge is available, why try to struggle along without it? The difficulties of not knowing are always much greater than the effort of learning.
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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.”
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To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw.
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It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw.
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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.