Drawing Quotes
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My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front.
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Drawing was the only thing I was any good at in school, but I never dreamt I would, or even could, spend my life doing it.
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For me, travelling and drawing the world, experiencing as much as possible first hand, has been very important. Making notes, drawing and writing on the move, became second nature.
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A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.
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I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.
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Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
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Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.
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Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines.
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After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.
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When I talk to children, I show them a typical drawing I made when I was six and point out to them that when I was their age, I didn't draw any better than any of them.
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What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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When you see a condemned man on his way to the gallows, it moves you to pity. If you could do something to free him, you would do it. Well, brothers and sisters, when I see a person in mortal sin, I see someone drawing nearer with every step to the gallows of hell. And seeing him in this unhappy state, I happen to know the way to free him: that he be converted to God, ask God's pardon, and make a good confession. Woe betide me if he does not.
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I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.
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A drawing has never killed anyone.
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It's fun to sit down and do a few drawings, but when you have to sit down and do hundreds of drawings whose value only depends on getting to the end of the chain, then you've created a different kind of monster.
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I am only an artist, my job is to make drawings not to make sense.
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I have no drawing talent whatsoever. I cannot do it.
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Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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Non...I am DANCING IN MY NUDDY-PANTS!!!' And we both laughed like loons on loon tablets. I danced for ages round the house in my nuddy-pants. Also, I did this brilliant thing-I danced in the front window just for a second whilst Mr. Across the Road was drawing his curtains. He will never be sure if he saw a mirage or not. That is the kind of person I am. Not really the kind of person who goes and raises elks in Whakatane.
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At that childhood time, of course, if you were involved in art, it was going to be drawing and painting, because that's the only thing that was taught in the schools.
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I love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
