Drawing Quotes · Page 16

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing…

— Huston Smith

When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.

— John Fahey

Writing comics and drawing comics is a really very specific art form. It's a lot easier to get it wrong than it…

— Brian Stelfreeze

I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear…

— Paul Klee

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

— Vincent Van Gogh

Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.

— Matt Smith

Prayer is the breath of the new man, drawing in the air of mercy in petitions, and returning it in praises; it…

— Matthew Henry

When you see a condemned man on his way to the gallows, it moves you to pity. If you could do something…

— Anthony Mary Claret

An aptitude test established architecture as an alternative [career]. But what decided the matter for [Teddy Cruz] was the sight of a…

— Rebecca Solnit

God in heaven holds each person by a string. When you sin, you cut the string. Then God ties it up again.…

— Anthony de Mello

The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting…

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

A mental image gives you a framework upon which to work. It is like the drawing of the architect, or the map…

— William Walker Atkinson

Life can be a fearful thing. Everyone needs someone drawing alongside, saying “You can do it. Don’t quit.” Everyone needs someone who…

— Dave Earley

Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our…

— Rico Lebrun

“1.  Position one blank sheet of paper to your right and another to your left; then take a pencil in each hand. Simultaneously,…

— Edward M. Hallowell

I can't do this to you,' he said, drawing back. Emily put her hand on his and pulled the gun to her…

— Jodi Picoult

Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school.

— Dianna Agron

Move forward. Keep drawing myself. I will look at the world in the eyes and run forward.

— Minzy

One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.

— James Purefoy

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

— Robert Henri

When you are drawing characters to serve a plot purpose, you tend to get flat, stereotyped, unliving characters.

— Tom Rickman

It must be a prospect pleasing to God Himself to see His creation forever beautifying in His eyes, and drawing nearer Him…

— Joseph Addison

Why bother? I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood.

— Poppy Z. Brite

There's no denying that Caruso came with a voice?that Beethoven came with music in his soul, Picasso was drawing like an angel…

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it's not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing…

— Billy Connolly

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

— Frank Auerbach

Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work.

— Charles E. Burchfield

“Be venturesome. Try new things that appeal to you. Examine others. Have a pioneer spirit. Prevent your drawing from being common. Put…

— Robert Henri

I like my drawings to be direct. I don't generally work on them for too long, but that doesn't mean that they…

— Jeff Koons

The comics were not only stories to enjoy; for me they were drawings that possessed me.

— Jean Giraud

I couldn't go into the haphazard drawing or the paintings, the splashing of paint. I wanted to go back to a completely…

— Marcel Duchamp

You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue.

— Carol Ann Duffy

Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.

— Alexander Kotov

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming…

— Rod Serling

I have had sculptures cast in bronze, silver and aluminium. My drawings are all graphite or pigment ink and gouache on paper.

— Patricia Piccinini

Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic.…

— Michael Kimmelman

My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the…

— George Grosz

Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What…

— Oscar Niemeyer

My website's kind of fun for me. I get to do drawings on that. It's kind of fun.

— Jeff Bridges