I’m reading Irving Stone’s historical novel, “The Agony and the Ecstasy.” Here are some quotes about creating art:
“There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.”
“Drawing is the supreme way of blotting out your ignorance of a subject, establishing wisdom in its place. . .”
“Drawing is learning. It is discipline, a measuring stick with which to see if there is honesty in you. It’s a confessional; it will reveal everything about you while you imagine you are revealing someone else. Drawing is the poet’s written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.”
“To draw is to be like God when He put breath into Adam; it is the outer breathing of the artist and the inner breathing of the model that creates a new third life on paper. The act of love, Michelangelo, the act of love; through which everything on earth is born.” (79)