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 -
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 -
The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
Walter Gropius -
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 -
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 -
I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
P. J. Harvey
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I am very bad at drawing. Seriously. I can draw shoes. That's about it.
Christian Louboutin -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.
Charles M. Blow
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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 -
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 -
I would love to learn archery. Unfortunately I'm too busy writing and drawing ten thousand comics a month. Maybe one day!
Jeff Lemire -
For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.
Marjane Satrapi -
Drawing must seek interest, not admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.
John Howe -
My idea of Heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing.
Peter Falk
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I have 17 full-time archivists working for me who put away in books all the diversity of artwork I do, from drawing to etching to monotypes to prints to lithographs.
Peter Max -
Drawing is the skeleton of what you do and color is its flesh.
Nicolas Poussin -
I think of Superman as the ultimate vanilla hero. He's this perfect refugee, this perfect immigrant from another planet who embodies the American dream.
Antje Traue -
For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'.
David Cameron -
You don't have to be wealthy to run for mayor. I'm a Green Party candidate running for mayor and I'm being taken seriously.
Matt Gonzalez -
You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.
Richard MacDonald