Learning to draw requires tenacious perseverance, which can overcome any obstacle. Qi Baishi once said this inspiring saying: The key to painting is between similarity and dissimilarity. Dissimilarity is deceiving, and similarity is kitsch. Below I will share with you some inspirational quotes for learning to draw:
1. Speaking of my lifelong love for art, it actually still sprouted in elementary school. ——San Mao
2. We are in a poor mountain ravine, but our eyes are watching the world's art trends and envisioning the future. ——Tan Chang
3. In order to convey the feelings he has experienced to others, a person rekindles this feeling in his own mind and expresses it with some external signs. This is The origin of art. ——Tolstoy
4. Scientists do not create anything, but reveal the ready-made hidden reality in nature, and artists create analogues of reality. ——Goncharov
5. Look at the hand work over and over again, come to it more than twenty times, but you have to start from the beginning every time until you are completely satisfied. ——Matisse
6. Life is short, art is long. ——Pan He
7. The reason why art can produce science is entirely derived from the concept of "the unity of truth and beauty". They feel that truth is beauty, and truth is beauty, so when seeking beauty, they start with seeking truth. ——Liang Qichao
8. Everything in nature can be represented by cylinders, cones and spheres. That is, according to the law of perspective, the front, back, left, and right sides of the object are concentrated on the central focus. ——Cézanne
9. I owe you the truth of painting, and I will tell you in the painting. ——Cezanne
10. I don’t paint what I see, I paint what I know. ——Picasso
11. There is painting in the poem, and there is poetry in the painting. ——Wang Wei
12. Works of art are by no means a representation of individual objects that appear at any given time. On the contrary, they are a representation of the general essence of things.
——Heidegger