Richard MacDonald Quotes

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

Richard MacDonald

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• The Hindu nationalists see a religion near perfection save for the tampering of Muslims and Christians. So they fall upon these groups, rather than try to reform their own practices by drawing on India's sophisticated philosophical traditions.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Fall
  • Religion
  • Drawing

• Above and beyond drawing my creations, I try to incorporate some kind of message. I try not to end as merely a question but try to provide a conclusion within the work.

  

  Natsuki Takaya
  • Work
  • Question
  • End

• The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • World
  • Artist
  • Painting

• I think all children draw, as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • People
  • Children
  • Myself

• I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Up
  • School
  • Art

• 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.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Character
  • True
  • Day

• I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Like
  • Painting
  • Photography

• I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Children
  • Car
  • Drawing

• Terrorists are people, too - they are given to error. Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good job in their novels of drawing this out: I'm thinking of DeLillo's contention in 'Mao II' that terrorists have replaced writers as the people who 'alter the inner-life of the culture.' I thought that was marvellous!

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I am very bad at drawing. Seriously. I can draw shoes. That's about it.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Bad
  • Shoes
  • Drawing

• I've always said the bass just happens to be the crayon I picked out of the box. I'd still be drawing the same pictures... should I have picked trumpet or accordion or guitar, whatever it may be. The sounds in my head are still the same.

  

  Les Claypool
  • May
  • Drawing

• What you do is, you have your drawing board and a pencil in hand at the telescope. You look in and you make some markings on the paper and you look in again.

  

  Clyde Tombaugh
  • Hand
  • Drawing

• Fights with my father were really quite brutal. I would not live his vision. I would not become who he wanted me to be. Everything I did was criticized. I would spend three months drawing something and show him, and he would look up from his paper and just look back down. I got no approval from him for anything I did that was creative.

  

  Kevyn Aucoin
  • Up
  • Live
  • Father

• I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Work
  • Alone
  • Brother

• I did take my camera along, as I felt there wouldn't be enough time to draw the things I wanted to do. I did some drawing and did a lot of photography but I was not part of Stryker's outfit at all.

  

  Ben Shahn
  • Time
  • Photography
  • Drawing

• I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.

  

  Charles M. Blow
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Painting

• I was taught to draw very well when I was in school at Boston. And I grew to enjoy drawing so much that I never stopped.

  

  Ellsworth Kelly
  • School
  • Drawing

• Doing Tim's film is always going to be the most pleasure. Let me just put it that way. So, without drawing favorites one way or the other, getting back with him and doing Mars Attacks! was certainly a special treat.

  

  Danny Elfman
  • Drawing

• The hardest thing is in terms of the drawing, because, you know, I really have to work to keep my hand fluid, and I've done a lot of recovery, but it's not the same as it once was.

  

  Emil Ferris
  • Work
  • Done
  • Hand

• My idea of Heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing.

  

  Peter Falk
  • Up
  • Good
  • Rest

• I'm not 100% nice all the time, so I find it quite hard to be really pleasant.

  

  Alexa Chung
  • Time
  • Nice

• We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

  

  Liza Koshy
  • Experience
  • Curiosity
  • Valuable

• You can't make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.

  

  Colin Quinn
  • Funny

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

  

  Richard MacDonald
  • Drawing
  • Illustration