Drawing Quotes

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

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

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing is always my notation.

You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.

My doodles and sketches are not the work of an academic engineer. They represent many years of design study in attempts to produce the best value for money in the field of small car design.

We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing and painting, in mountaineering, or in just being there.

It came to me late, as an adult, the desire to draw and participate in the world of lines.

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

Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember.

Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.

There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring

Beautiful colours can be bought in the shops on the Riatlo, but good drawing can only be bought from the casket of the artist's talent with patient study and nights with out sleep.

I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.

Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it into your subconscious, which is graceful. But that takes time.

In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.

I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.

In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature.

Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.

It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw.

Cutting and pasting is the essence of what hip-hop culture is all about for me. It's about drawing from what's around you, and subverting it and decontextualizing it.

Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.

Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures.

The comics were not only stories to enjoy for me they were drawings that possessed me.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it [the rules of perspective] now, and do not have them bothering you and your work for the rest of your life.

I dont play any two suited cards. I play any two non-suited cards. That way I am drawing at two different flushes.

Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.

Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.

Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper.

A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks besides you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near. His head is within our hand in his old way.

Practice by drawing things large, as if equal in representation and reality. In small drawings every large weakness is easily hidden; in the large, the smallest weakness is easily seen.

I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

I collected pictures and I drew pictures and I looked at the pictures by myself. And because no one else ever saw them, the pictures were perfect and true. They were alive.

Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend they'll last forever.

Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing.

Drawing takes time. A line has time in it

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

What happens if you start drawing squares? Well, I'd say the answer to that is, don't get famous for drawing circles.

The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.

It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.

Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp.

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'

Planning, evaluation, reasoning and establishing prioritites are all more important than brilliance - either behind the wheel or at the drawing board.