Dieter Roth quotes

Dieter Roth quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“If you can't draw something, just draw it.”
-- Dieter Roth

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“Faced with a choice, do both.”
-- Dieter Roth

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“An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive.”
-- Dieter Roth

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“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.”

Source : Edward Kasner, James Newman (2013). “Mathematics and the Imagination”, p.4, Courier Corporation
“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.”

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