Time is money; money is power; power is pizza; pizza is knowledge. Let’s go!
— April Ludgate, Parks and Recreation, Season 6: Second Chunce
I’m not interested in the texture of a rock, but in its shadow.
–Ellsworth Kelly
This resonated with my mostly because of my main character in Stars Fall Out, a failed printmaker whose tendency to see the light and shadow in everything ends up revealing something important about a newly-engineered magic.
My drawings have to be quick. If they don’t happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they’re no good.
–Ellsworth Kelly
I discovered the same thing a few months ago when I started setting time limits for myself just so I would draw more. Longer drawing times equal stilted drawings.