#illustrating

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I know. I'm mapping out, like topographically, some terrain I am satisfied with, how awkward that mark is. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

#awkward #how #i #i am #i think

There is too much illustrating of the news these days. I look at many editorial cartoons and I don't know what the cartoonists are saying or how they feel about a certain issue. ↗

— Paul Conrad

#cartoonists #cartoons #certain #days #editorial

I spend as much time as I can sketching from nature, Dartmoor contains such a rich variety of landscape, as many boulders, foaming rivers and twisted trees as my heart could ever desire. . . . When I look into a river, I feel I could spend a whole lifetime just painting that river. ↗

— Alan Lee

#drawing #illustrating #nature #nature

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#idea #illustrating #near #novel #simply