18 Quotes by Betty Edwards

Over the last forty years, many educators, decision-makers, and even some parents have come to regard the arts as peripheral, and let’s face it, frivolous—especially the visual arts, with their connotation of ”the starving artist” and the mistaken concept of necessary talent

Al parecer, dibujar un tema percibido requiere principalmente de las funciones visuales perceptivas, no verbales, del hemisferio cerebral derecho, sin intervención del sistema verbal del hemisferio izquierdo. El color y la pintura, por otro lado, requieren esas mismas funciones visuales perceptivas, y además la intervención del hemisferio izquierdo, verbal y secuencial, para obtener los colores mediante mezclas.

Я думаю, что это возвышенное чувство наблюдения за Природой — одна из главных радостей, которую доставляют мне мои попытки живописи... Весь мир открывается со всеми его сокровищами. Простейшие объекты обладают своей красотой... Это не может наскучить... Боже милосердный! Как много того, чем можно восхищаться, и как мало времени нам дано на это!Уинстон Черчилль "Живопись как времяпрепровождение", 1950

We mostly see what we have learned to expect to see.

Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers.

As your skills increase, you will see your unique style become firm and recognizable. Guard it, nurture it, and cherish it, for your style expresses you. As with the Zen master-archer, the target is yourself.

Creativity is the ability to find new solutions to a problem or new modes of expression; thus it brings into existence something new to the individual and to the culture.

Albert Einstein put it best: “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

As each new skill is learned, you will merge it with those previously learned until, one day, you are simply drawing – just as, one day, you found yourself simply driving without thinking about how to do it.