Drawing Quotes

I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.

But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever.

Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

Drawing a funny animal, you don't need a lot of detail to make it work. But to draw a sexy girl, there's certain things you can't leave out.

Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.

Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge

I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid.

Drawing a comparison to football, it could be said that the Spanish economy has, during this legislature, into the Champions League of the world economy, however bad that may seem to some.

Drawing or painting allows the artist to know himself as a whole person.

I have a theory that I did most of my observing probably before I was twenty, stored it, and am still drawing on it.

Everyone [of my kids] can ride a bike now, so the park has had a big resurgence in our life. We also play a lot of dumb drawing games.

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

I had TB as a child. So I was put to doing things like drawing and reading. And I was raised in a family where manners were important. Maybe that's why I seem so refined.

I was 11 when I was first introduced to live drawing classes and going to art school.

I think when you're an actor and you're drawing on your emotions all the time, you need to be quite steady.

It is often said that Leonardo drew so well because he knew about things; it is truer to say that he knew about things because he drew so well.

In drawing, I often think of things as flying buttresses.

Well, I love tattoos and have been drawing them on my binders in school since I was little.

You are not to think of painting as something separate from drawing.

I've been drawing all my life, just as a hobby, without really having shows or anything. It's just an agreeable thing to do, and I recommend it to everybody.

Sometimes a collage element I hit upon can inspire the entire drawing.

This was weird. The thing that could have driven two friends instantly apart was actually drawing them closer together.

They say they have noticed me drawing. I almost tell them right then and there. They noticed.

Film is a very collaborative medium. If you're smart enough, you learn how to maintain your vision while drawing resourcefully from all the people around you.

I did take one drawing class in school, but for this book I spent a lot of time talking to painters and asking them silly questions.

At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.

There's no denying that Caruso came with a voice?that Beethoven came with music in his soul, Picasso was drawing like an angel in the crib.You're born with it.

I remember preparing for my audition on the plane to L.A. — I was drawing all these weird vampire pictures and I am sure the gorgeous ladynext to me thought I was very odd.

Ideas mostly come from the work itself. Often when I'm drawing, the words will be bouncing around in my head, and when I'm writing, ideas about the drawing happen.

If I could make a career out of drawing little girls hiding in corners, I would do really well.

I made a drawing for a book I'm working . It's a little drawing of a girl who's ashamed and upset and hides in the corner of the closet. It's the kind of drawing that I feel like I'm really good at.

It wasn't that I wanted to be an artist. But when I took my first drawing class with the painter Doug Ohlson, I could never finish a drawing.

Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.

Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any.

When I was a school kid I used to read lots of comics. This started me on drawing, I would make my own comics about my teddy bear whose name happened to be Ted.

We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the features of the person that we are and not of the person we should like to be.

Most of the supposed expressions of our feelings merely relieve us of them by drawing them out of us in an indistinct form that does not teach us to know them.

There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

The least I can give them is the best they can get from me. What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.

Both of my parents were cartoonists - they met in art school - so I was always drawing and I was the best artist in my class and all that stuff.

The goal is glorifying God by drawing circles around the promises, miracles, and dreams He wants for you.

For me, the '80s were like the drawing by Botticelli of the nine rings of hell.

Low comedies are written for the drawing-room, the kitchen and the stable, and if you cut out the kitchen and the stable the drawing-room can't support the play by itself.

Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.