Stan Smith Quotations

Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist.

God pays twice as much attention on Christmas, like the media when a white kid goes missing.

If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it.

Hey, all I was trying to do was keep my country and my family safe!

Study your subject through half-closed eyes before starting to draw - you'll find that the lights and darks are exaggerated and easier to identify.

Spaces between the forms, or the negative shapes, play just as great a role as the positives and they enable you to check the accuracy of your drawing. The positives make the negatives and negatives make the positives.

In the real world there are many tones, from white at one extreme, through a large number of medium tones to black at the other extreme. To achieve a three-dimensional effect on paper you need just three - white, black and medium gray.

When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.

Son, feelings are what women have. They come from their ovaries.

I would agree that people today probably don't save enough. But I just don't think that the personal-savings rate is a good indicator of what is really happening. It ignores so much; it is a very limited metric.