“The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.”
Robert H. Conklin, Wisconsin Idyls, A Modern Pan, 1915
“Drawing is an act of commitment and of laying bare one’s soul…”
Martin Copertari | As lovers went by | 2013
Jasper Redfern by Sheffield
“I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.”
by David Shillingford Paynter (1900–1975)
Illustration by Ephraim Mose Lilien (1906)
“It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to ‘caress’ his canvas, too.”