The harder truth of the matter is that most drawings are failures and that almost all drawing is merely practice. One draws especially to learn. You learn and you learn and you learn. You are constantly making new connections in your mind. You are constantly trying to stop old connections from …
https://ricdragon.com/2018/04/13/the-harder-truth-of-the-matter-is-that-most/
“Drawing is touching” - John Walker(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/) …
https://ricdragon.com/2017/10/04/drawing-is-touching-john-walker/
“(…) I tried not to be wedded to my ideas. They’re simply what got me to the canvas and beginning to paint. My desire was to make a meaningful experience, and I committed to each painting knowing that whatever reason I started with would at a certain point become dispensable like the scaffolding …
https://ricdragon.com/2017/05/14/i-tried-not-to-be-wedded-to-my-ideas-theyre/
All great Works, the Works that can hold us in their thrall indefinitely, are similarly close to what they are after. The old man’s (Titian’s) painting of dogs, one of Rothko’s late, large paintings of a coloured glow, or a Hokusai drawing of a couple fucking, are all equally close to their aim. …
https://ricdragon.com/2017/03/16/all-great-works-the-works-that-can-hold-us-in/
A drawing of a tree shows, not a tree, but a tree-being-looked-at. … Within the instant of the sight of a tree is established a life-experience. John Berger (via ricdragon) …
https://ricdragon.com/2016/04/26/a-drawing-of-a-tree-shows-not-a-tree-but-a/
