Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue
Interpretation
Drawing is fundamental to the creation of paintings, encompassing nearly all aspects except color.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres emphasizes the importance of drawing in the art of painting. He suggests that a skilled drawing captures the essence of the subject, serving as a foundation for the artwork, while color merely adds an additional layer that does not detract from the fundamental skill required in drawing. This highlights the notion that the technical ability to represent forms and figures accurately is crucial in art.
In practice
This quote could be used in a lecture about art fundamentals.
Drawing is the probity of art. To draw does not mean simply to reproduce contours; drawing does not consist merely of line: drawing is also expression, the inner form, the plane, the modeling. See what remains after that.
It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint.
Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.
For Poesy alone can tell her dreams, With the fine spell of words alone can save Imagination from the sable charm And dumb enchantment. Who alive can say, ‘Thou art no Poet may’st not tell thy dreams?’ Since every man whose soul is not a clod Hath visions, and would speak, if he had loved And been well nurtured in his mother tongue. Whether the dream now purpos’d to rehearse Be poet’s or fanatic’s will be known When this warm scribe my hand is in the grave.
Some may find them merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if either or both is wrong? Not I.
You can't improvise without a skeletal structure; you can't just go in and start talking. This is a very misunderstood craft because no one else makes movies like this.
Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front, turn around, and look at the light from the screen reflected on the upturned faces of the members of the audience.
It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering them... They feel they have got it right if they express the stress.
Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.
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