43 Impression − Expression = Depression
As Woolie said in his lecture, “You’re capturing action all the time, because you are watching action all the time during the day … I am talking about the sensation (impression) you get from seeing something that moves beautifully. ”
No artist worth his weight in graphite can go through life gathering impressions without expressing them in drawing, painting, or story. Those “sensations” have got to find an outlet or they will coagulate and bring on depression. You’ll get that “Terrible Turquoise Tangle, ” or perhaps you might even terminate in a “Turmoil of Tintinnabulation, ” or maybe just fade away in a “Tearful Tedium of Tepidity. ”
Speaking of quick sketching, some of you already know that when my wife ...
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