David Bomberg quotes

Good judgement is through good drawing – from the nervous system to the sensory of the brain it is the combination of eurythmics, euphony and poetry, and when the good draughtsman draws, the muses come to dance. Then the imagination is given full play, and design happens. They then become the Muses. (David Bomberg)
Style is ephemeral – Form is eternal. View quote
David Bomberg
An artist whose integrity sustains his strength to make no compromise with expediency is never degraded. View quote
David Bomberg
I approach drawing solely for structure. View quote
David Bomberg
The exercise of drawing from the life brings out the individuality of the (artist) in the man. View quote
David Bomberg
Drawing demands freedom, freedom demands liberty to expand in space – this is progress. By the extension of democracy – good draughtsmanship is – Democracy's visual sign. To draw with integrity replaces bad habits with good, youth preserved from corruption. The hand works at high tension and organises as it simplifies, reducing to barest essentials, stripping all irrelevant matter obstructing the rapidly forming organisation which reveals the design. This is drawing. View quote
David Bomberg
Speaking generally Art endevours to reveal what is true and needs to be free. View quote
David Bomberg
The exercise of drawing from the life brings out the individuality of the (artist) in the man. When the door has been closed on completion of an academic rendering, no matter how rendered to the resemblance of the anatomic stress and strain, it is still only saying the things you already know... it is still a lifeless drawing in the light of modern art. View quote
David Bomberg