Drawing Quotes

We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.

I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.

As long as I could hold a pencil, I was drawing and telling stories and making jokes. I've just been lucky that no one ever stopped me, and now I can do that for a living.

Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.

The art of drawing is the art of omission.

Drawing is the simplest way of establishing a picture vocabulary because it is an instant, personal declaration of what is important and what is not.

If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.

You’re not supposed to animate drawings. You’re supposed to animate feelings.

The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the paper. I have an image in mind, but the results always surprise me.

Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

Since childhood, I have been painting, for no special reason, numerous dots and nets, drawing from the hallucinations that seem to appear endlessly. I can't explain why if you ask me.

If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.

Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.

I'd always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn't.

Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm not sure what will come out.

Drawing Is An Escape From All The Unecessary Things In Life That Get In The Way Of Being Free

Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature, drawing no line between what is spiritual and what is not.

'My bride is here,' Rochester said , again drawing me to him, 'because my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will you marry me?'

I draw manga, therefore I am!

When remaining in awareness itself, every thought movement, no matter what kind, is like a drawing in air.

If I don't have an erection when I'm doing a drawing, I know it's no good.

I really wish Mike and Joe would stop drawing on me while I'm sleeping.

I do not know if you bridle your pen, but when my pencil moves, it is necesary to let it go, or - crash!... nothing more.

For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.

But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake.

Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.

I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

he line has almost become a work of art in itself; one can not play with it when the representation of objects perceived was all-important.

The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up.

Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate.

If you are drawing a blank, or are having a hard time drawing a certain thing, then it is because you have not studied it enough.

More important than having a romance with the object that I'm drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I am making.

I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.

I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views and they must all be equally good.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

Things shape themselves before my eyes just as a I draw them.

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.

Isn't it amazing what a pencil can have inside?

Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.