Drawing Quotes

I think the way kids create is so inspiring. They're drawing a picture? They love the picture they drew; they're not tortured about it.

From as long as I can remember, I was always fond of drawing.

The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the illustration.

I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it first.

Art is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making.

We will be drawing down some troops. If the president wants to try to turn that into the beginning of a success, he actually, I think, has some opportunity.

Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.

When I was a barber, me being extreme was how I got popular: you name it, I was drawing it on someone's head.

Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.

I would always be painting and drawing. If I was stuck at home, I was in the basement working on a painting.

I didnt grow up drawing runway models and deciding what they should wear.

music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.

Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother & an instructor.

Any questions?" "Ya why do your drawings suck so bad?

When you are drawing characters to serve a plot purpose, you tend to get flat, stereotyped, unliving characters.

From being a young kid I was always drawing and painting, usually stuff like private parts or bloody images but always with a comedy twist to it.

I dont think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill.

I love drawing what the character is feeling, in my comics, with no dialogue.

A mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it.

In fact, I believe to a certain extent a person today who starts with just clay, with no drawing and no painting and no figure drawing, still-life drawing, various things, they miss a great deal.

[Shoji] Hamada seldom drew an exact drawing of a pot that he was going to make.

Bernard's [Leach] drawings delineated every little accent on the pot, every subtle curve and change of angle and proportion and all.

Bernard [Leach] was making pots which were duplicates of his drawing, and that was a difference of approach, which I think is quite critical to these two men [Leach and Shoji Hamada].

At that [childhood] time, of course, if you were involved in art, it was going to be drawing and painting, because that's the only thing that was taught in the schools.

I went to the Chicago Art Institute, which was the best painting school in the area at that time. And I took painting classes - basic elementary painting classes and drawing classes of all sorts.

How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident.

The music starts as being way separate from the lyrics, and I write - I have notebooks that I fill with drawings and just words, and stuff that I've written.

The problem is, when you're making an animated movie, the studio has an illusion in their minds - and it's really not true - that because it's a drawing, it can be changed at any time.

You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

Surely there is something to be said for drawing a circle around our attention and remaining within that circle. But how large should this circle be?

We all have 10, 000 bad drawings in us. The sooner we get them out the better.

practice makes better

It was amazing what an hour with her sketchpad could do for her mood. She was sure that the lines she drew with her black marker were going to save her years of worry lines in the future.

To spend time observing, without drawing, thinking, without drawing, or feeling, without drawing, is the misfortune of nonartists.

It just feels like meeting him again was like seeing a blank paper ready to be sketched, a different idea to be drawn.

I'm a Baroque person. More than Baroque, I'm a Rococo person. I don't draw straight lines.

... she wore a masterpiece smile with smudges of paint and graphite across her cheek, and her eyes were a Jackson Pollock painting.

Who knows when a trenchant line becomes a human face?

Everything is happening according to the ‘drawing’ [past causes], You just have to ‘see’ them. Desires are ‘drawings’ too.

Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you to see what you're looking at more clearly. Did you know that?"I said nothing."What colour's a blackbird?" she said."Black""Typical!

If you're the only one that can see the genius in you, It's best you revisit the drawing board.

When I write...I am in the fond armsof a childhood friendupon whose colorful heart I can hang the charcoal drawingsof my woes.

This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.

If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing

Writing is an abstract art of drawing pictures of the conscious and subconscious mind with words.

Not at all. You look as though magic has taken hold of you. It must be magic because I don't know how you can draw like that. I can barely manage a stick figure.

The child is father of the man….attributed to Sigmund Freud, but believed to have been coined by a well-known poet years before Freud's time

Looking at her always reminded me of a rose that was dripping blood. I always felt it was drawing all the life from inside. Just to look beautiful on the outside.

The ink line drawing flowed the cursive journey, created on paper canvas that brought the story to life.

With lead he shaded love into the woman's eyes.