Drawing Quotes

I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.

Without good drawing, the foundation of a painting will collapse.

I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.

The process of producing a project is one long string of delight and anxiety, but I think the real thrill of animation would have to be drawing the pictures.

My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards.

For some reason, a lot of Hollywood big shots are curious to see how they'd be drawn with bulging eyes and no chin.

You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.

Drawing at its best is not what your eyes see but what our mind understands.

I'm drawing in my head pretty much.

By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.

Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.

A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.

With pencil there is a tendency to be timid, either using very faint lines or erasing bad lines... Line sketching tends to emphasize the structure of a drawing rather than the nuances of media.

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds actually wasn't meant to say LSD It was a drawing that John's son brought home from school Lucy was a kid in his school.

I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano.

Prayer, as a means of drawing ever new strength from Christ, is concretely and urgently needed.

My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office.

I was very influenced by comics. The drawing style, definitely, I was interested in. My style of drawing is largely a comic style, but it's also much more obvious than comics.

I really don't see any influence of my work on any artists. But I do think I've had an influence on drawings' being shown. I've had an influence on the economics of it.

I had only two girlfriends. I didn't have many friends because I was staying at home and dreaming - drawing and dreaming.

Among German historians, there's really not much debate about whether or not Hitler was a social Darwinist. He clearly was drawing on Darwinian ideas.

I shun drawing which is too easily formulated. It does not seem fertilized enough to produce consequences, and a drawing should be a provider of consequences.

Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our acquiescence to the ready-made.

There are only five things really worth drawing; four of them are pretty girls and the fifth is cats.

I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework.

For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.

Has your drawing the meaning you saw in the model at first?

If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.

I do have great respect for painting, but I am definitely not a painter. I make drawings of paintings, and I'm jealous of painting for sure, but, for me, the paper gives my work a limit.

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.

I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.

Learn to draw. Try to make your hand so unconsciously adept that it will put down what you feel without your having to think of your hands. Then you can think of the thing before you.

If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it.

My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.

See to whom Jesus is drawing near, three kinds of people: to those who make peace with him, to those who are devoted to God, and to those who are kind to their neighbors.

The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.

There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.

Do not draw before you paint, it will restrict your brush.

I was the kid who was drawing on tables or removing the legs of furniture.

As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.

I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.

The way I make drawings is just with a desktop Epson C88 printer and they are designed to break, they are really cheap. So I bought a lot of them before it became impossible to find them.

Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience.

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.

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.

When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.

I close my eyes and can see men drawing lines in the dust. America pushes through the membrane of mist and smoke, and I'm a small boy again in Bogalusa.

You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested in the present.

Iwas a sculptor.Butthat'sreallydrawinga drawing you fall over in the dark, a three-dimensional drawing.

For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.