Drawing famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I was once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous influence; that I've been told I was on the verge of insanity, that my painting was nothing but meaningless daubs. Lawren Harris, the man most responsible for drawing the Group of Seven together, was accused of something perilously close to treason - his paintings, said his severest critics, were discouraging immigration.
-- A. Y. Jackson -
Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
-- Adam Gopnik -
Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
-- Adam Gopnik -
We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
-- Adam Sedgwick -
Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists.
-- Adrian McKinty -
I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
-- Agnes Denes -
Iwas a sculptor.Butthat'sreallydrawinga drawing you fall over in the dark, a three-dimensional drawing.
-- Al Hirschfeld -
You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested in the present.
-- Al Hirschfeld -
Cursed in earth and subdued by death, man found himself beset by time, and his instincts put to the test. Only then, he realized that with love he could survive, and that for a certain purpose he would toil. For those whom my love can not immune from death, are dedicated these paintings, in the hope they may express in drawing the reality of a resonant mind.
-- Ala Bashir -
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 -
The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.
-- Alain de Botton -
The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.
-- Alain de Botton -
When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged. I love trying to render not just the object, but what it has been through.
-- Alan Lee -
I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right.
-- Alan Lee -
To draw a tree, to pay such close attention to every aspect of a tree, is an act of reverence not only toward the tree, and toward the earth itself, but also our human connection to it. This is one of the magical things about drawing -- it gives us almost visionary moments of connectedness.
-- Alan Lee -
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. The activity of the intuition consists in making spontaneous judgements which are not the result of conscious trains of reasoning... The exercise of ingenuity in mathematics consists in aiding the intuition through suitable arrangements of propositions, and perhaps geometrical figures or drawings.
-- Alan Turing -
When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
My doodles and sketches are not the work of an academic engineer. They represent many years of design study in attempts to produce the best value for money in the field of small car design.
-- Alec Issigonis -
The most distinguishing element of my novels is that I try as hard as I can - within the context of a popular commercial thriller - to make them feel authentic. Drawing on real locations and real events is part of that authenticity.
-- Alex Berenson -
Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.
-- Alexander Kotov -
Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart, and in spirit.
-- Alexander Whyte -
Writing and drawing are very therapeutic, but they are also an excellent manifestation tool. I teach my clients to draw what they want, or to write a story about it to bring the manifestation forward into the present.
-- Alice McCall -
I paint; I'm a woman but I don't paint china. The first time I got a canvas I felt free. Art is overreaction to life. I love these early drawings; they show my innocent beginnings in a small town. Life is a sentence -- you live it out. Maybe these portraits jump out at you too much. People like things that conform.
-- Alice Neel -
I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.
-- Alison Bechdel -
Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.
-- Alison Bechdel -
Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.
-- Alison Bechdel -
For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.
-- Alison Bechdel -
There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear..." he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, "Revenge.
-- Ally Carter -
God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.
-- Alvar Aalto -
I dont play any two suited cards. I play any two non-suited cards. That way I am drawing at two different flushes.
-- Amarillo Slim -
the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it. The flavor really helps the image to penetrate the body. It fixes it as lacquer does a drawing.
-- Anais Nin -
You can only learn to paint by drawing, for drawing is a way of reserving a place for color in advance.
-- Andre Lhote -
If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it [the rules of perspective] now, and do not have them bothering you and your work for the rest of your life.
-- Andrew Loomis -
Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.
-- Andrew Solomon -
And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.
-- Andrew Wyeth -
The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
-- Andy Goldsworthy -
If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.
-- Anna Seward -
Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.
-- Anne Carson -
The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely, there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background.
-- Anthony Browne -
My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be. . . .
-- Antoine Lavoisier -
There is something evocative about the idea of destruction. This act of destruction is the expression of an idea... that what we call reality is not real at all. When I draw a head, for example, I immediately feel an urge to destroy it, to erase it, because the drawing only captures an outward appearance, and for me the vital issue is what lies behind the visual form of the head.
-- Antoni Tapies -
The tattoo can only exist as part of the skin, as a drawing always is an incision in the material and therefore cannot be parted from it.
-- Antoni Tapies -
When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.
-- Antony Sher -
When I was a child of four I wasn't really drawing like a child, I wasn't sketching as a child. I would sketch and I was using perspective, the good relationship of the subject.
-- Arman -
Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.
-- Arshile Gorky -
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 -
"I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences."
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
We should lay up in our minds a store of goodly thoughts which will be a living treasure of knowledge always with us, and from which, at various times, and amidst all the shiftings of circumstances, we might be sure of drawing some comfort, guidance and sympathy.
-- Arthur Helps -
Things shape themselves before my eyes just as a I draw them.
-- Aubrey Beardsley -
I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse myself, and if it has amused the public as well, so much the better for me.
-- Aubrey Beardsley -
What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to be sure that nothing evaded my grasp of it... My objective is to test to what extent my hands already feel what my eyes see.
-- Auguste Rodin -
My drawings are the result of my sculpture.
-- Auguste Rodin -
By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
-- Balthus -
Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But in all these varied and exciting extensions of our experience we always come back tot the fact that we are human beings of such and such a size, biologically the same as primitive man, and that it is through drawing and observing, or observing and drawing, that we equate our bodies with our landscape.
-- Barbara Hepworth -
Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you have one of your own. That is why you read it, and might even sit up in bed till early dawn, throwing your whole tomorrow out of whack, simply to find out what happens to some people who, you know perfectly well, are made up.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.
-- Ben Nicholson -
I was asking questions which nobody else had asked before, because nobody else had actually looked at certain structures. Therefore, as I will tell, the advent of the computer, not as a computer but as a drawing machine, was for me a major event in my life. That's why I was motivated to participate in the birth of computer graphics, because for me computer graphics was a way of extending my hand, extending it and being able to draw things which my hand by itself, and the hands of nobody else before, would not have been able to represent.
-- Benoit Mandelbrot -
Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.
-- Bent Larsen -
photography is not only drawing with light, though light is the indispensable agent of its being. It is modeling or sculpturing with light, to reproduce the plastic form of natural objects. It is painting with light ...
-- Berenice Abbott -
The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved. The only alteration they are likely to desire in the status quo is an increase of bureaucracy and the power of bureaucrats.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Making clothes involves what I like...color, pattern, shape and movement...I like the everyday process...the people, the pressure, the surprise of seeing the work come alive walking and dancing around on strangers. Like red lipstick on the mouth, my products wake up and brighten and bring the wearer to life...drawing attention to her beauty and specialness...her moods and movements...her dreams and fantasies.
-- Betsey Johnson -
An individual's ability to draw is... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from verbal, analytic processing to spatial, global processing.
-- Betty Edwards -
Be clear in your mind why learning to draw well is important. Drawing enables you to see in that special, epiphanous way that artists see, no matter what style you use to express your special insight. Your goal in drawing should be to encounter the reality of experience... to see ever more clearly, ever more deeply.
-- Betty Edwards -
As each new skill is learned, you will merge it with those previously learned until, one day, you are simply drawing - just as, one day, you found yourself simply driving without thinking about how to do it.
-- Betty Edwards -
Drawing is the simplest way of establishing a picture vocabulary because it is an instant, personal declaration of what is important and what is not.
-- Betty Goodwin -
Drawing is the most inalienable medium. It is private; it practically doesn't have an audience in mind, just the artist's expression.
-- Betty Goodwin -
I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L' out of me.
-- Bil Keane -
When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.
-- Bil Keane -
I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.
-- Bil Keane -
Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.
-- Bill Blass -
Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.
-- Bill Budge -
Too often cartoonists just look at other cartoonists and, after a lot of inbreeding, everyone has the same funny look. The challenge of drawing is that there is no one right way to visually describe something. It's a good thing to confront your limitations and preconceptions every so often.
-- Bill Watterson -
I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.
-- Billy Childish -
I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it's not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.
-- Billy Connolly -
I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.
-- Billy Connolly -
Well, it's always been my nature to take chances My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances
-- Bob Dylan -
When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to?
-- Bob Monkhouse -
I like doing clay work. It's different from drawing on a page because you have something to mold into different shapes. It's quite visual, it's a thing you can hold and feel, and that makes it different from drawing.
-- Bonnie Wright -
I wrote a lot. I was in programs for drawing when I was a kid.
-- Boyd Holbrook -
When caricaturist, Al Hirschfeld, did a drawing of a celebrity, it often looked more like the person than the person did. That's our goal in animation.
-- Brad Bird -
Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.
-- Brenda Ueland -
There is the "you" that people see and then there is the "rest of you". Take some time and craft a picture of the "rest of you." This could be a drawing, in words, even a song. Just remember that the chances are good it will be full of paradox and contradictions.
-- Brennan Manning -
But still when the mists of doubt prevail, And we lie becalmed by the shores of age, We hear from the misty troubled shore The voce of children gone before. Drawing the soul to its anchorage.
-- Bret Harte -
For me drawing is an attempt to understand what I feel about the world I live in.
-- Brian Froud -
The drawing and the crafting of the story are fun, but it's the overall meaning that matters to me. It might escape some people who just want to read a comic, and that's fine. The overall meaning is what matters.
-- Brian Michael Bendis -
I think when I'm drawing, I'm seeing what's happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in my head.
-- Brian Selznick -
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 cant do it.
-- Brian Selznick -
A gift, like a good friend drawing a personal road map out of the crazy busy swirl of our overloaded lives.
-- Brigid Schulte -
I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art) is never really finished; it is abandoned.
-- Brooke McEldowney -
In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.
-- Bruce Nauman -
When drawing the sun, try to have on hand colored paper, chalk, felt-tip markers, crayons, pencils, ball point pens. You can draw a sun with any one of them. Also remember that sunset and dawn are the back and front of the same phenomenon: when we are looking at the sunset, the people over there are looking at the dawn.
-- Bruno Munari -
When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will.
-- Buffy Sainte-Marie -
My father would sit and design furniture and cabinets - he was a carpenter and cabinet maker - and I would ask for my own piece of paper and pencil. And when I would say, 'What should I draw?' he would push a cartoon under my nose and say, 'Here, draw this.' So the cartoon became a kind of focus of attention.
-- Burne Hogarth -
It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.
-- Camille Pissarro
