They told me I was not to draw.

“She told me to draw the curtains shut, so I grabbed my pencil and began to sketch.”

— Jarod Kintz

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“An old gunslinger once told me that you never draw a gun unless you intend to use it, and you never—ever—tell someone you are…

— Michael Scott

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

— Rodney Dangerfield

Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind, and hence…

— Theodore Schroeder

Art made tongue-tied by authority.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Robert Henri

I've always been a draw-er, all throughout elementary school I was the "kid who draws".

— Liz Prince

I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper

— Kevin Nealon

“It is not until you draw something, whether it is an object, a building or an activity, that you really begin to understand it.”

— Martin Salisbury

The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too,…

— Robert Anton Wilson

That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.

— John Donne

It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

— Christopher Hitchens

“No more peeping through keyholes! No more mas turbating in the dark! No more public confessions! Unscrew the doors from their jambs! I want…

— Henry Miller