Drawing Quotes · Page 15

I dont think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I…

— Toyin Odutola

The older I become, the more I realize that drawing is the most important of all the problems of picture-making.

— Joaquin Sorolla

The writing for me is hard work and I always look forward to drawing the pictures.

— Marc Brown

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

— James Madison

How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you…

— William Morris Hunt

All my drawings always sort of looked funny even if I was trying to do serious stuff and express myself about grim…

— Barry Blitt

“The Secret of Drawing consists of just two things: 1) Making lines on paper; and 2) Choosing where they go.”

— James A. Owen

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

— Henry Moore

While the World Bank is an inter-governmental institution, drawing its funds from member governments and run by a board of directors nominated…

— Sanjaya Baru

I seemed to have instinctually a strong idea of how the strip had to be written from the beginning. That changed too,…

— Jules Feiffer

I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of…

— C. S. Lewis

I buy mainly Beatles bootlegs and stuff like that. I'm hoping I can go there today. My dad buys my drawings and…

— Daniel Johnston

One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep…

— John Jay Chapman

From the drawing-room window I see pass almost daily an old gentleman with white hair, a firm step, broad shoulders, healthy pink…

— W.N.P. Barbellion

There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those…

— Julie Burchill

Expression is never considered a given, and it is in fact maybe not what's most interesting about making art. Making art, since…

— Kurt Ralske

More important than having a romance with the object that I'm drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I…

— Jim Dine

When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil,…

— Robyn Hitchcock

Maps are essential. Planning a journey without a map is like building a house without drawings.

— Mark Jenkins

If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.

— Edward Gorey

What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“I still have that drawing. Whenever I look at it, it makes me happy. That's the moral of the story. That's it.”

— David Levithan

The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each.

— Bill Watterson

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.

— Roma Downey

Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's…

— Seth Godin

I want the 'Roots' biopic to be animated - I see Charles Schulz drawing us. I think it would be more hilarious…

— Questlove

Research suggests that someone who is constantly drawing on their creative abilities can, on average, be productive for no more than six…

— Rutger Bregman

“You'll see: if you acquire a taste for drawing, you won't be able to do without it, just like me. Hokusai (The…

— Françoise Place

I love drawing. It's a passion of mine, and I'm a creative person. I always have my sketch book with me.

— Brook Lopez

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

— Alberto Giacometti

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

— Anonymous

I am going to do some drawings or paintings...in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something.

— Gwen John

It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled…

— Bram Stoker

A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?

— Cassandra Clare

A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.

— David Ogilvy

What Tim does is, he calls me and sends me the script. And then he sends me a drawing, an illustration of…

— Danny DeVito

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.

— Sol LeWitt

We don't sell technical drawings except when they are incorporated into a drawing or a collage.

— Christo

“I want to inspire children to read, write, and draw. I want to inspire parents to listen to their children.”

— Trevor Carss

Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives…

— Keith Haring