Drawing Quotes

• Many people say that I don't know how to draw because I don't draw particular forms. When will they understand that execution, drawing and color (in other words, style) must be in harmony with the poem?

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • People
  • Style
  • Color

• The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.

  

  Aristotle
  • Beautiful
  • Pleasure
  • Random

• Many thanks for your letter and the Gauguin woodcuts.. .One can see, incidentally, that Gauguin had Persian miniatures, Indian batik and Chinese art in his very blood. The shapes of the birds and the horse show that clearly. But although it looks very well, Gauguin can't stimulate us present-day artists much. We need a direct route from life to plastic form. And we get it by perpetually drawing everything we see.

  

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Art
  • Blood
  • Route

• All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Earth
  • Hands
  • Hell

• Drawing is like the first kiss. It carries within it the deepest emotion and the challenge of the first step. It is the first cry after birth.

  

  Ala Bashir
  • Emotion
  • Drawing
  • Kiss

• 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.

  

  John Berger
  • Work
  • Drawing

• Europeans are dying out. Don't you understand that? And same-sex marriages don't produce children. Do you want to survive by drawing migrants? But society cannot adapt so many migrants.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Children
  • Dying
  • Migrants

• My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front.

  

  Evan Sayet
  • Drawing
  • Cartoon
  • Festivals

• When a drawing doesn't come out right it's because I haven't figured out where the joke is. Not that every drawing has a joke, but every drawing has a point. At least it should have. And you figure out where the point is.

  

  Edward Sorel
  • Drawing
  • Point
  • Joke

• Drawing is the root of everything.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Drawing
  • Roots

• When we distributed the paper and crayons, they were fighting over the blue crayon. Everyone wanted to start with the blue, and that was the water. One drawing shows the trees under water. I was really moved.

  

  Connie Sellecca
  • Water
  • Fighting
  • Blue

• We are sending out thoughts of greater or less intensity all the time, and we are reaping the results of such thoughts. Not only do our thought-waves influence ourselves and others, but they have a drawing power - they attract to us the thoughts of others, things, circumstances, people, 'luck', in accord with the character of the thought uppermost in our minds.

  

  William Walker Atkinson
  • People
  • Character
  • Influence

• I was drawing professionally by the time I was 12. I used to do very detailed sort of photorealistic pen-and-ink work, and I burned out on it around, like, high school. And cartooning really got me back into drawing.

  

  Dan Povenmire
  • School
  • High
  • Burned

• A mental image gives you a framework upon which to work. It is like the drawing of the architect, or the map of the explorer. Think over this for a few moments until you get the idea firmly fixed in your mind.

  

  William Walker Atkinson
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • Working

• I loved surrealism and abstract painting, and anything related to those. I always thought painting was the highest form of art. What led me to drawing was seeing so much self-important, pretentious, conceptual-type art in university. I wanted to reject that by making quick, fun art.

  

  Neil Farber
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Drawing

• Shoji Hamada seldom drew an exact drawing of a pot that he was going to make.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Drawing
  • Pot

• Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines.

  

  E. J. Hughes
  • Drawing
  • Lines
  • Watches

• In my writing class, we never, ever talk about the writing - ever. We never address a story that's been read. I also won't let anyone look at the person who's reading. No eye contact; everybody has to draw a spiral. And I would like to do a drawing class where we could talk about anything except for the drawing. No one could even mention it.

  

  Lynda Barry
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Drawing

• I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans, and, besides, has there ever been a building that didn't look great as a model?

  

  Paul Goldberger
  • Looks
  • Building
  • Plans

• Anything that makes you feel good is always going to be drawing in more.

  

  John Gray
  • Drawing
  • Makes
  • Feel Good

• Drawing is the honesty of the art.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Art
  • Drawing
  • Honesty

• A drawing has never killed anyone.

  

  Stéphane Charbonnier
  • Never
  • Drawing
  • Killed

• It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing.

  

  Deanna Petherbridge
  • Practice
  • Write
  • Entire

• 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.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • School
  • Art
  • Childhood

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