Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author Robert Beverly Hale.
Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Robert Beverly Hale was an artist, curator of American paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and instructor of artistic anatomy at the Art Students League of New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. He was also the author of the well-known book Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters, as well as the translator of the classic anatomy text Artistic Anatomy by Dr. Paul Richer.
Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it into your subconscious, which is graceful. But that takes time.
An artist sees things not as they are, but as he is.
Am I the kind of person I want my eternal companion to be?
First we draw what we see; then we draw what we know; finally we see what we know.
First you draw what you see. Next, you draw what you know, and only then will you know what it is that you see.