I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.
Edward GoreyRead
If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.
Interpretation
Embrace the unexpected in creativity; it's essential for true expression.
Edward Gorey's quote emphasizes the importance of spontaneity and unpredictability in the artistic process. He suggests that if a drawing lacks surprises or elements that challenge the artist, then the act of drawing may not hold much value. True art often involves unexpected twists, which can lead to deeper insights and expressions of the artist's emotions.
In practice
An artist sharing this quote during a workshop to encourage students to experiment with their styles.
I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.
This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.
I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.
Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind.
if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and trameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!
Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by the road and making something beautiful out of it.
Speak to me...be eloquent, be brilliant for me. Improvise! Rhapsodize!... I ask for cream and you give me milk and water... Please gather your dreams together into words. - Roxanne, Cyrano de Bergerac
I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.
The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it’s definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.
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