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Well, there's that comment from Richard Schmid when he was differentiating art (painting) from sculpture.
"Sculpture is what you bump into when your backing up to see the art."
He said this on one of his DVD viideos.
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And Dan Greene tells the story about the workshop student who was having trouble handling foreshortening in a 3/4 view portrait, so she just drew a big bump on the far side of the face and inserted a regular sized eye. When Mr. Greene pointed out to her that the model's face didn't look like that, she replied that she came from a very small town near the arctic circle, and that it would be okay because no one up there knew the model, so they wouldn't be the wiser about the model's real appearance.
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Or, there's a former neighbor of mine who borrowed a few painting supplies beause she wanted to try painting. A few days later, there was an agry knock on my door. "I'm not getting this," she said, and added, "if I don't get it by Friday, I'm quitting." I asked what was she trying to paint . . . what had she drawn on her canvas. "Draw . . . draw . . . ???" she sputtered. "I don't want to draw, I want to paint." I exlained that mostly, painting derived from drawing and that she would probably have difficulty until she at least outlined on her canvas what she had in her mind. My painting supplies appeared on my porch a short time later.
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