Drawing Quotes

I never draw except with brush and paint.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.

I think people are quite surprised that the handwriting I use in my drawings and paintings is my own handwriting. They're slightly shocked when I write them a letter.

In my work I've never done preliminary drawing, because it's sometimes difficult to repeat something or to continue when the urgency's gone.

I work on drawing as a final product.

It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing.

Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines.

I've found from years of trial that the only way I can work is to make sketches in pencil from Nature, purely as reference material for future use in the studio.

Drawing is your understanding of form.

It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

But every human path leads on to God; He holds a myriad finer threads than gold, And strong as holy wishes, drawing us With delicate tension upward to Himself.

Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn't seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.

Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.

The profoundest order is revealed in what is most casual.

Never ask a favor until you are drawing your last breath; and never forget one.

I usually use quick sketches that I accumulated from the figure drawing classes I once instructed.

While most students were trying to draw one beautiful finished piece, I would be in the background drawing dozens of studies at different angles to use later.

Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world.

While drawing grasses I learn nothing 'about' grass, but wake up to the wonder that there is grass at all.

Walk in nature. Take the time to be still. Practicing arts, arranging flowers, doing some drawing, working on a computer, brings a sense of stillness into your life.

I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.

Drawing is the necessary beginning of everything [in Art], and not having it, one has nothing.

Man was not then considered a good goldsmith unless he could draw well.

For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.

I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.

Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels.

But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near.

Drawing is an idea more than fact.

There are many ways to draw beautifully. It's important to let the drawing be an investigation and sometimes, in order to investigate, you need to go off the path.

An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but everything that happens to me, that I can affect, or that affects me.

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

I remember that at one time I always made a drawing before going to bed!! - Of myself I mean - though I finally destroyed most of them.

Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue

It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.

I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase. For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.

A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues.

The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.

Always think of drawing, getting the forms realized, emphasizing the design.

No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of paper and a pencil or paints.

I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing.

We do a wealth of stuff (live), drawing from over the years.

It must be a prospect pleasing to God Himself to see His creation forever beautifying in His eyes, and drawing nearer Him by greater degrees of resemblance.

But with period clothes, people know less so they accept the pretty drawing that I give them.

I'd like to be an architect. That would be cool. I like drawing.

When I was in fourth grade I was drawing Jordans when my mama couldn't afford them.