Dieter Roth quotes

  • Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists.

  • The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.

  • To draw a tree, to pay such close attention to every aspect of a tree, is an act of reverence not only toward the tree, and toward the earth itself, but also our human connection to it. This is one of the magical things about drawing -- it gives us almost visionary moments of connectedness.

  • When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.

  • I've never played for a draw in my life.

  • I've felt depressed many times in my life, so I can draw on those times in my life when I need to.

  • All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?

  • Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

  • My greatest day is yet to come. Of all the things that I've accomplished, my greatest day is yet to come. But it will never come if I don't pursue it.

  • If you do the right thing, the right thing will come down the path.