"To make marks, lines, or smudges on a plane surface is to draw. The act of drawing is the execution of meaningful marks, lines or smudges in more or less permanent from. We draw with our finger on a frosty window pane and the lines evaporate. We draw in the sand with a stick, and wind and wave obliterate our marking. We draw on a blackboard with a piece of chalk and erase our marks to make a clean slate for other drawings...
Drawing can be a means of communication- a language- and we use it as such... What he is able to sketch out will usually be a pale and inadequate projection of the original image, but this feeble sketch will stimulate further imaging and the drawing will proceed to develop almost like a growing organism so that it sometimes seems to the artist to draw itself; the drawing assumes a life of its own, as it were independent of its maker."
I found this book in the CSUN Library and have started to read it! I have enjoyed what I have read and will be sharing new quotes when they come up!
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