Drawing Quotes

Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.

All good and genuine draftsmen draw according to the picture inscribed in their minds, and not according to nature.

Thoughts are sending out that magnetic signal that is drawing the parallel back to you

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.

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.

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.

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

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.

The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of drawing lines.

I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.

When I look at a drawing of a person, I look at that person as living.

I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt.

Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.

We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.

If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.

I have been watching and drawing the surface of Mars. It is wonderfully full of detail. There is certainly no question about there being mountains and large greatly elevated plateaus.

My drawing began as a way to count my blessings. To study, capture, catalog the things that, despite it all, make my life rich.

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.

When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find done by the hand of great masters.

Draw lines - draw a lot of lines

As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.

The first ten thousand drawings are the hardest. Put another way, you have ten thousand bad drawings within and should expel them as quickly as possible.

I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.

I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.

Drawing is the true test of art.

I admired anybody who could make a buck with his drawing.

It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.

Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic.

Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.

Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.

Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.

I've been very influenced by Inuit art especially some drawings and watercolors I've seen.

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

The work, I suppose, is made in the editing, whereby I make literally hundreds of drawings, and then a much smaller percentage of those become the finished work.

Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?

I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.

Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest huts, in the dirtiest corner. And my mind is drawn toward these things by an irresistible force.

Drawing is still the bottom line.