Drawing Quotes

A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse myself, and if it has amused the public as well, so much the better for me.

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.

One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a fragment coming to fill a gap in the drawing.

I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.

If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.

Man, fountains pen are a pain to use, drawing backgrounds is a also a pain... Drawing manga really is a pain. In short living is a pain... I want to become a cheesburger

Bonnat tells me, 'Your painting isn't bad, it is chic, but even so it isn't bad, but your drawing is absolutely atrocious.' So I must gather my courage and start once again.

I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to realize as sculpture... And I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted.

My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.

It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.

Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified.

We must cling only to drawing.

You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.

Disneyland is a work of love...Drawing up plans and dreaming of what I could do, everything. It was just something I kind of kept playing around with.

I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.

Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next.

To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.

If you go by a school and the kids don't whistle, back to the drawing board.

Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits.

In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built.

Drawing is deception.

Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.

I'd like to study the drawings of kids. That's where the truth is, without a doubt.

The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting (remark on printmaking).

If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you'll probably get the humor in the audio part.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.

Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation.

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.

God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him.

When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.

It's weird making a drawing of painting. I start to realize that charcoal is this incredibly fragile material. I'm making images of paintings out of dust.

My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

The straight line is ungodly.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

Drawing is the honesty of art.

I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary.

Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic.

Move forward. Keep drawing myself. I will look at the world in the eyes and run forward.

Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper.

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.