“I have no imagination. I never plan a drawing, they just happen.”

Cited in: Paul Arnett, ‎William Arnett (2000), Souls Grown Deep: The tree gave the dove a leaf. p. 308

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update March 1, 2022. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "I have no imagination. I never plan a drawing, they just happen." by Minnie Evans?

Minnie Evans7

American artist 1892–1987

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

“… I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

“In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One

Source: The Lucky One

“Life doesn't have to be so planned. Just roll with it and let it happen.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I have to work things out by painting them. I can't just imagine what will happen. I have to do it and see it. That's the only way I find out if it will go anywhere.”

Kenneth Noland (1924–2010) American artist

Kenneth Noland, p. 9
Conversation with Karen Wilkin' (1986-1988)

“It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“Life Plan:
I asked her what she planned to do with her life & she said she was way beyond that point already. I'm just happy I remember to be there when it happens, she said.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

“John Hagee: In the case of New Orleans, their plan to have that homosexual rally was sin. But it never happened. The rally never happened.
Dennis Prager: No, I understand.
John Hagee: It was scheduled that Monday.
Dennis Prager: No, I’m only trying to understand that in the case of New Orleans, you do feel that God's hand was in it because of a sinful city?
John Hagee: That it was a city that was planning a sinful conduct, yes.”

John Hagee (1940) American pastor, theologian and saxophonist

The Dennis Prager Show, 2008-04-22, quoted in * Hagee Says Hurricane Katrina Struck New Orleans Because It Was ‘Planning A Sinful’ ‘Homosexual Rally’
Think Progress
Matt
Corley
2008-04-23
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2008/04/23/22152/hagee-katrina-mccain/
2011-08-06

“I rather feel that painting is a form of drawing and the painting that I like has a form of drawing to it. I don't see how it could be disassociated from the nature of drawing.... I find in many cases a drawing has been the subject of the painting – that would be a preliminary stage to that particular painting.... the painting can develop something that is not at all related to the drawing and have no particular mood about it at all; it's just a cool kind of reality that has a series of involvements within it; and the pure excitement of those things happening within this form is enough for that particular panting..”

Franz Kline (1910–1962) American painter

n.p.
1960's, Living Art, 1963

“I don’t plan things. As a rule I prefer to see what happens.”

Saul Leiter (1923–2013) American photographer

Saul Leiter: The Quiet Iconoclast (2009)

“I have no imagination. I never plan a drawing, they just happen.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Minnie Evans7

Related quotes

Related topics