Drawing Quotes
Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are
Draw, draw, hundreds of drawings. Try to remain humble. Smartness kills everything.
Of all the creative acts performed by the artist, the most directly legible is drawing... it is the act that is most directly and spontaneously governed by his nervous and muscular system.
Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart, and in spirit.
If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.
Up in this air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be.
I usually have several things on the go. Whether it is my own drawings for the next work that I am working on while a sculpture is being fabricated or several works at different points in production.
I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.
To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.
All of you here have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone.
Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness.
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.
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.
By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.
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.
Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads.
There is only one right way to draw... physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses.
When I'm doing a drawing, I'm personifying the place that is empty. A place that is unmarked.
I am still in love with couture because it is just two months from drawing pad to runway so everything on the catwalk is hot from the oven.
It is not the bee's touching on the flowers that gathers the honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out the sweet.
For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
Drawing on the experience I have of now directing, to me, my one strength that I know is my ability to communicate with actors and therefore make characters really important.
I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.
I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.
Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala and metaphysics and the ecstasy of sainthood.
We take as given the idea of distinction and the idea of indication, and that one cannot make an indication without drawing a distinction. We take therefore the form of distinction for the form.
Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.
We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.
The construction of the human figure, its tremendous variety of balance, of size, of rhythm, all those things make the human form much more difficult to get right in a drawing than anything else.
There is but one fountain of comfort for a man drawing near to his end, and that is the Bible. ...All comfort from any other source is a house built upon sand.
I feel the calmest when I'm drawing or when I'm creating images. I love connecting the mind with the hand and producing something - that is very comforting and centering for me.
As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.
You can only learn to paint by drawing, for drawing is a way of reserving a place for color in advance.
Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.
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.
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
