Drawing Quotes

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself.

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.

It is the brushwork of the right value and color which should produce the drawing.

Planning, evaluation, reasoning and establishing prioritites are all more important than brilliance - either behind the wheel or at the drawing board.

The ability to draw from life determines the artist's skill. This is why live drawing classes have always been at the top of the curriculum for properly structured academic workshops.

It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.

People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'

Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.

Drawing is the most direct and personal kind of graphic expression. Unlike painting, it doesn't forgive. You put down your black line, and there it is - as inevitable as death.

I am not a big technology person. I don't go on the Internet really much at all. Drawing is like a zen thing; it's private, which in this day and age is harder to come by.

I don't look at my films or my old drawings much, so that was an interesting way to kind of reconnect with myself a bit.

Drawing is the honesty of the art.

It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.

And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done

Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk.

I draw like other people bite their nails.

Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.

Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.

I met Picasso when I was a kid. I turned one of his drawings down which would be worth £37 million now. My dad wouldn't talk to me for a fortnight.

The subject should be observed more for shape and color than for drawing... precise drawing is dry and hampers the impression of the whole, it destroys all sensations.

When I'm drawing a picture, I feel...quiet inside.

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art.

Drawing and Drinking Coffe

My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good.

Can I start by asking why your drawings abnormally suck?

You can never do too much drawing.

There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that it will eventually have text.

Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.

I thought of the character being real, a living person, not a drawing.

Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.

Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.

Sketching is a continuing source of learning rather than a string of performances.

Pure drawing is an abstraction.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

Ideas rather than methods are central to they way I work, although drawing plays a central generative role in everything I do.

I've always considered myself a graphic artists - a draftsman - as opposed to a typist. I do still work on a drawing table. At times drawing on a computer feels like I'm drawing on an Etch-a-Sketch.

Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.

Line is the most powerful device of drawing.

I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.

Form, color, composition, drawing, are auxiliaries, any one of which... can be dispensed with.

Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . . . Is this not form?

'As I am, so are these. As are these, so am I.' Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill.

I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen

I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

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.

The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.