J. M. W. Turner Quotes

.. I reprobate the mechanically systematic approach of drawing.. ..so generally diffused. I think it can produce nothing but manner and sameness.

J. M. W. Turner

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• My fiance likes drawing on napkins, which I save. I'm always scared I'll get caught taking a linen napkin from a restaurant!

  

  Lake Bell
  • Always
  • Drawing
  • Restaurant

• There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Know
  • Drawing

• I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Want
  • Energy
  • Know

• I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Family
  • School
  • Art

• 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

• People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.

  

  Gary Larson
  • People
  • Work
  • Ideas

• 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

• England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • You
  • Drawing
  • Determined

• 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've always loved pinup art, and I've always enjoyed drawing women. I think it was a conscious decision that has resulted in me getting almost exclusive work on comics where the main character is female.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Work
  • Women
  • Art

• I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Painting
  • Drawing
  • Loved

• 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

• What I think you are going to see is with DACA being gone, it gets rid of the magnet of drawing people over here, thinking they are going to come in and get amnesty.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Drawing

• Florida is one of the first states that sort of gives the legislature a very clear criteria for re-drawing electoral district maps. Basically, all the criteria do is tell the legislators that you can't draw a seat that helps yourself or a political party. That's really critical.

  

  Dan Gelber
  • Political
  • Party
  • Yourself

• Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?

  

  Rabbit Maranville
  • Life
  • May
  • Fun

• 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’m not interested in truths, like drawing an accurate picture of the real world. I’m interested in exploring the verities of the human condition.

  

  Jim Crace
  • World
  • Real
  • Picture

• It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide "This is a movie I don't like," basically you can take every element of the film and find the obvious flaw, or argue that it seems ridiculous, or like a parody of itself, or that it's not as good as something similar that was done in a previous film. What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

  

  Christian Nestell Bovee
  • Strong
  • Failure
  • Determination

• If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Religious

• The idea that a musician can submit music online for the chance to have it promoted to a nationwide audience is the American dream come true, and a major step toward democratizing how music is discovered.

  

  Ali Partovi
  • Music
  • Dream
  • Ideas

• .. I reprobate the mechanically systematic approach of drawing.. ..so generally diffused. I think it can produce nothing but manner and sameness.

  

  J. M. W. Turner
  • Drawing