{"id":1232,"date":"2005-11-21T00:26:44","date_gmt":"2005-11-21T08:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/11\/21\/what-is-drawing\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:46:15","slug":"what-is-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/11\/21\/what-is-drawing\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Drawing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do wish I could get ahold of this book! Alas, only in Britain&#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do. How is one to get through that wall &#8212; since pounding at it is of no use? In my opinion one has to undermine that wall, filing through it steadily and patiently.<\/p>\n<p>What I try to acquire is not to draw a hand but the gesture, not a mathematically correct head, but the general expression&#8230; In short, life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/030010720X\/qid=1132561464\/sr=8-1\/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl\/203-0665208-5755939\">Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janeysjourney.typepad.com\/\">Janey&#8217;s Journey<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do wish I could get ahold of this book! Alas, only in Britain&#8230; What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do. How is one to get through that wall &#8212; since pounding at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-quotes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12433,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions\/12433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}