Stan Smith Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. A lot of people now think Im a shoe. They dont even know I was a tennis player. The shoe has really taken on a life of its own, way beyond me.

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#3. My first love was basketball.

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#4. 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.

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

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#6. Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

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

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#8. Laughter is infectious, like small pox or gay.

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

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#10. Winning is great, but it's the l9ong road to get there that makes it worthwhile.

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

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

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

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#14. 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.

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#15. Sweeping gestures from the shoulder allow you to make generous marks, well suited to large scale work. You don't get anything simpler than this - I'm sure it is the way the cave men drew.

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