Drawings Quotes

• In a way, the political cartoon drawings are things that are small and have humor and a childhood aesthetic and are often stronger to spread an opinion.

  

  Camille Henrot
  • Political
  • Opinion
  • Spread

• In Utero is a testament to the artistic vision of Kurt Cobain. It's kind of a weird record, and it's strangely beautiful at the same time. And if you look at Kurt's paintings and his drawings - he even did a sculpture for me - it's a rising, tortured-spirit person. It's kind of weird. It's done well, but it's like what Dave was saying about having your own sound. Kurt was a great songwriter. He knew he had a good ear for a hook [and was] a great singer, great guitar player, and In Utero is a good representation of what he liked in art and how he expressed himself.

  

  Krist Novoselic Nirvana
  • Vision
  • Record
  • Representation

• James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught - I didn't go to art school - so I thought when I started doing them, 'If James Thurber can be a cartoonist, I can,' because his stuff is very raw.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • School
  • Art
  • Inspiration

• In entertainment, I adore Ricky Gervais in 'Derek.' His performance is unbelievably charming, funny and poignant. In life, I adore my girlfriend. She is the most adorable person I have ever met - from her silly jokes to her cute teeth to her little drawings.

  

  Josh Zuckerman
  • Cute
  • Entertainment
  • Charming

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

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Music
  • Inspire
  • Define

• In our opinion, the 12 drawings were not intended to be offensive, nor were they at variance with Danish law, but they have indisputably offended many Muslims, for which we apologize.

  

  Carsten Juste
  • Law
  • Muslims
  • Apologize

• 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.

  

  Cathy Guisewite
  • Mom
  • Surprise
  • Comic

• Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms.

  

  Joseph McCabe
  • Rooms
  • Creeds
  • Drawings

• Drawings don't have a point. Cartoons, you want to have an opinion; you want them to express a viewpoint.

  

  Steve Breen
  • Cartoons
  • Viewpoint
  • Drawings

• Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.

  

  Paul Mellon
  • Canvas
  • Final
  • Immediacy

• I’m always about stuffing as many drawings as I can into one second

  

  Chad VanGaalen
  • Can
  • Second
  • Stuffing

• One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's something about that that keeps it fresh to the viewer.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Reasons
  • Fresh
  • Viewer

• Some sculptors make drawings, I make heads.

  

  David Altmejd
  • Some
  • Drawings
  • Sculptors

• The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.

  

  George Grosz
  • War
  • Clarity
  • Drawings

• We Europeans have to toil to achieve it, at least as a transitional stage, for it is what we feed our dreams upon. These Orientals from India have it in their blood, perhaps because they spend their lives I the sun. We poor wretched Europeans must sacrifice body and soul for even a shadow of it.. .It is not a question of trying to reproduce objective features, only of good practice for the fingers and for the perceptive faculty, and that too is very useful. You must have read how Van Gogh was always getting his brother to send him drawings to copy. And how Rembrandt used to copy Indian an Italian pictures. Not of course, because they were short of material, but to get 'du corps'. So one should be always drawing.. .Oh, you'd love the Indians. The pure, Aryan Indians, not those one could see in Berlin, whose forms had become rigid and sterile through mingling with the Chinese.

  

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Brother
  • Dreams
  • Blood

• Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a young beginning artist, no doubt they crop up again and again.

  

  Elaine de Kooning
  • Ideas
  • Artist
  • Child

• In Miami they're building all these hideous monstrosities. It's just so easy to be an architect, once you've got the ability to do your computer drawings. They just knock off each other. There's nothing creative in any of them.

  

  Barbara Hulanicki
  • Architect
  • Miami
  • Drawings

• Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm not sure what will come out.

  

  Sigmar Polke
  • Experiments
  • Private
  • Drawings

• I had so many ideas that I wanted to get out at once that it led to simple little drawings and paintings.

  

  Neil Farber
  • Ideas
  • Paintings
  • Drawings