So the National Gallery's decision to include more than 50 of his stupendous drawings – thought-into-line – is not just wise but apposite.
My notebooks were filled with snippets of conversation, drawings, thoughts, stories.
The Brand Associates are offering a gift of art, a selection from the volume of Brown's studies and gesture drawings, the thoughts on paper that led to his production of prints, in ink, pencil, watercolor and pastel, to those who join the Brand Library and Art Center Associates during the exhibition.
In his accompanying artist statement Mr. Cote likens his drawings to remembered thoughts, and his thoughts take many forms.
Headstands, about face drawings, and the thought of making a cake upside down all have their appeal.
Arthur Symes says that when he saw John's project drawings "my first thought was, This guy's not a black artist".
Dahlia Elsayed, for instance, makes thoughtful, intensely personal diagram-like drawings of her thoughts and feelings, much of which has to do with her own relationship problems and personal anxieties.
It's an exploration of his lost father, a journal of a road trip, a disjointed series of thoughts, drawings, and correspondences between friends and families.
And that's where we find GG Allin in the hardcover, glossy, limited-edition smorgasbord of thoughts, drawings, missives, and ideas titled My Prison Walls, to be released in July by Aggronautix.
In the days and months following her death, Santlofer kept a "widower's notebook" — a collection of thoughts and drawings he polished and bound into a memoir of the same title.
The event, originally postponed because of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, will include an activity that invites youngsters to contribute their thoughts and drawings to a 60-foot mural depicting New York City.
