Etc Quotes

Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.

Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

When I am in a painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc, because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.

Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.

You had better all die - die immediately, than live as slaves and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity.

Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

Sure things are going to get sketchy, but when your having the time of your life whats sketchy?

The middlegame I repeat is chess itself, chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, defences, sacrifices, etc.

Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these?

The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is mine, and it is not a general one, but is -- unique, as I am unique. Nothing is more to me than myself!

I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.

There's not a party, a congressman, a senator, etc. elected that will fix your life. YOU have to fix YOUR life.

Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm not sure what will come out.

When I see someone with an immaculate sketchbook, I don't trust that person.

I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which I imagined myself piloting.

A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.

The more I am in a position to be tried in faith with reference to my body, my family, my service for the Lord, my business, etc., the more shall I have opportunity of seeing God's help and deliverance; and every fresh instance, in which He helps and delivers me, will tend towards the increase of my faith.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

I am the Vietcong. We are everywhere! We are all Vietcong.

Never look back. Move on. Aim high. Etc.