Drawing Quotes

• There are times to be casual and times to be correct. It's all right to wear a sweater and slacks on a picnic, but they don't belong in the theater or the drawing room.

  

  Elsa Schiaparelli
  • Drawing

• I really enjoy drawing, and I enjoy design, fashion design especially. If acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'd probably go into design.

  

  Angourie Rice
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Fashion

• I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Humanity
  • Humans
  • Able

• Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement and by-play of the mind, but a co-ordinate power. Its work is unhappily styled fiction; for to idealize is to realize.

  

  Cyrus Augustus Bartol
  • Work
  • Music
  • Mind

• I want to bring drawing back to the basics, make it about the pleasure that it can afford and remove the notion that it's some kind of precious or difficult activity. It's another way of telling a story.

  

  Chris Riddell
  • Drawing

• There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing.

  

  Christian Lacroix
  • Drawing

• Isn't it amazing what a pencil can have inside?

  

  Quino
  • Amazing
  • Drawing
  • Pencils

• Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Art
  • Knows
  • Drawing

• I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

  

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson
  • Life
  • Real
  • Age

• 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 have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found... that, having done a drawing of souls in Purgatory for the Bishop of St. Gata, he, in order to spend less, commissioned another painter to do the painting using my work. If I were a man, I can't imagine it would have turned out this way.

  

  Artemisia Gentileschi
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.

  

  Alvar Aalto
  • God
  • Purpose
  • Architecture

• I always knew I wanted to create. I used to sit in my room for hours drawing and making things. I once got into trouble for cutting up my mother's lampshades to make a dress. I was three.

  

  Alice Temperley
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Cutting

• When I'm drawing, I'm drawing with the light, being completely open and creative. I can't draw in the evening. I need light and I need warmth if it is a summer thing, and I need cold if it is a winter collection. The good thing is that I have houses to go to whenever I'm working. I draw according to the place.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Good
  • Light
  • Cold

• Most normal boys, as they're growing up, they - in order to become attractive, they might, you know, get good at sports or join a rock band or develop good social skills, and for some reason, I thought that drawing comic books might be my route.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• If we get to the design sensitivity and make no detections, then there are a lot of things that will have to go back to the drawing board theoretically. If we fail, we're not expecting that the NSF will help bail it out somehow.

  

  Barry Barish
  • Help
  • Design
  • Drawing

• A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

  

  James Thurber
  • Drawing

• Not to make him blush, but any story illustrated by Mike Mignola does things that prose alone can't accomplish. The illustrations create mood and atmosphere, drawing the reader more deeply into the story than words could do on their own.

  

  Christopher Golden
  • Words
  • Alone
  • Mood

• All the other kids in ninth grade were drawing hot rods and cocker spaniels and getting blue ribbons in art class. I was getting rejection slips from the 'Saturday Evening Post.'

  

  Brad Holland
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Blue

• I am unable to comment on who may or may not be Banksy, but anyone described as 'good at drawing' doesn't sound like Banksy to me.

  

  Banksy
  • Good
  • May
  • Sound

• I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes
  • Drawing

• In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was before TV - and Superman movies. We even visualized Superman billboards. And it's all come true.

  

  Joe Shuster
  • True
  • Imagination
  • Superman

• I think the most important thing you can do is to keep drawing no matter what. And to not be afraid of drawing whatever interests you. If there is something that you want to draw, to make, then I think you should pursue it and not let anybody tell you that you can't do it.

  

  Brian Selznick
  • Important
  • Drawing

• I try to think of the social function of fiction as drawing the individual toward larger social and political questions. But I'm also very comfortable in saying that my novel - any novel - doesn't matter as much as larger questions of how we can see justice done.

  

  Jess Row
  • Done
  • Political
  • Justice

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