Drawing Quotes

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.

I wrote a lot. I was in programs for drawing when I was a kid.

I threw [Picasso's] drawing on the floor and in doing so, threw away about £50m.

You know, most of my career I wrote about moments in time. All of us have felt one thing or another and it didn't last very long. Now I'm drawing from real experience. It's a huge difference.

There was about six months when I was absorbing other stuff and not drawing very much. After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.

I don't want to spend my entire life drawing talking heads. It seems like a waste of everyone's time.

I like to make sculpture because it makes my life social. When I make drawings, I work alone. When I work with sculpture I have someone I can work with.

You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue.

what did wards matter when you could create your own reality just by drawing it?

The one [the logician] studies the science of drawing conclusions, the other [the mathematician] the science which draws necessary conclusions.

Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read.

Drawing on a computer doesn't make any sense to me. It's not intuitive.

I am very bad at drawing. Seriously. I can draw shoes. That's about it.

My drawing for women is really curvy. My drawings for men are actually quite angular.

Since I was a child I have always been cutting things out and gluing them together rather than drawing them.

The drawings are terribly good.

I like a girl with a substantial bottom,' said Renoir, drawing in the air the size bottom he preferred.

You've got a million bad drawings in you; you better get started.

I knew I wasn't that good a writer, and all I could remember was that I could draw. I'm better at drawing than I am at writing.

I'm English and I'm used to coming from a world of period dramas, where there's a very polite restraint to everything. Everybody's sort of sitting in drawing rooms.

Drawing is something I do on the side, I like to see it be of use at times.

I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists.

If the horse you're drawing looks more like a dog, make it a dog.

In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize.

I have a very low tolerance for animation. I'm used to the perfect integrity you get from drawing your own comics. There's something about that that animation always loses.

I started drawing at a very young age. Writing a story wasn't satisfying, but to actually draw our own world - it's like controlling your own dreams.

I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.

I've felt that in the past, where I just felt like I had to keep drawing in the same way to maintain this sameness and rhythm throughout an entire book, and it was not really necessary.

I can look at my early work and see what a pained struggle it was to draw what I was drawing. I was trying so hard to get this specific look that was in my head, and always falling short.

I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

Life can be a fearful thing. Everyone needs someone drawing alongside, saying “You can do it. Don’t quit.” Everyone needs someone who believes in them. Everyone needs encouragement.

Some sculptors make drawings, I make heads.

Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?

We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music.

I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.

I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.

Making drawings with text in the first place, it really was born of a desire to be economic, and to do things as simply as possible, and to do as much as I could by the most economic means.

You've seen the first issue and what happened in the last page. Some pretty awful stuff. I don't know why I seem to be very good at drawing it!

A cool tattoo design is any drawing that would also look good saggy.

All the drawing lacks is the final touch: To add eyes to the dragon

I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase.

Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school.

I have been drawing all my life.

Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books.

I sit, I think, I make some drawings. As a designer, you cannot retire totally.

But after all, what have we to do with taverns? Real menace belongs to the drawing-room.

Growing up working with my dad, I really had no interest in doing the actual work, so I was always like drawing on the wood, doing stuff like that. It just has a real hands-on approach.

What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.

I always urged my contemporaries to look for interest and inspiration to the development and study of drawing, but they would not listen. They thought the road to salvation lay by the way of colour.