Sunday, December 27, 2009

Sunday Sketchbook: Figure


"The mirror is not you...the mirror is you looking at yourself." What I take from George Balanchine's words is that we are more than what others see in us--and more than what we see of ourselves reflected back from others.

2 comments:

A Brush with Color said...

I like your interpretation of that beautiful quotation, and your sketches here are wonderful!

Susan Abbott said...

Thank you! I wrote this down years ago--it's true that artists are self-conscious to a fault.