Quote: Little Doubts And Second Thoughts Don't Want You To Work

'When you get an idea and you sit down to sketch it, right away all the little doubts and second thoughts and limitations that have been hanging around waiting for you to start some positive action, - one may be over in the corner sleeping, others are playing about - well, when they see you get to work with this idea they come and look over your shoulder, one will say, "Oh, no, you can't do that, that's not going to work." And another will say, "You don't paint enough," and so on. Say to them, "I'm only playing; you go on back to your corners." And, honestly when you do just play with an idea, they do go away and leave you. They don't want you to work, that's all. Play around with those little sketches, saying to yourself, "Now, if I were a really first-rate artist, how would I express this idea?" Then keep playing around till you think, "that's the way I really believe a first class artist might do it!" When you begin on the drawing itself, still you keep saying, "Now I wonder how would a finished high-grade man paint or draw this?" "Why, I believe he'd do it like this," and first thing you know it's painted!'

Harvey Dunn