Drawing Quotes · Page 22

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me…

— Shahzia Sikander

By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front.

— Evan Sayet

“My interest in drawing has died down here in England, but maybe I'll be in the mood again some day or other.…

— Anonymous

I keep thinking someone's gonna show up and say, 'There's been a big mistake. The guy next door is supposed to be…

— Gary Larson

Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.

— Frank Darabont

You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.

— Richard MacDonald

At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.

— Louis L'Amour

The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of…

— Alain de Botton

The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when…

— Anthony Browne

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real,…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

I don't believe in art like I used to. I believe in something beyond it, something that contains art and everything else.…

— Jim Woodring

@Ritzy, there is the cabin type thing I was drawing(and I told you it sucked) and @DaHandsome, I wasn't kidding when I…

— Ambry Hope

If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let…

— Salvador Dali

Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos,…

— Jerry Saltz

If you look at the success of snowboarding in the Winter Games and how that's brought a more youthful edge to the…

— Tony Hawk

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

— John Berger

A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted.

— Herbert Simon

Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.

— Paul Cezanne

I've had my own personal stalker. I would get nude drawings of my body with a knife and a message saying 'I'm…

— Erin Gray

Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Eventually you will get into the habit of enjoying line as a language all of its own.”

— Margaret Stevens

I live a very nice life. I have a wonderful time. But it's not lived drawing on a full level. I'm relaxed,…

— Marianne Faithfull

I'm just finding that when I'm sitting down and drawing the pages, it always takes me in a different direction than what…

— David Finch

Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and,…

— Marc Davis

I close my eyes and can see men drawing lines in the dust. America pushes through the membrane of mist and smoke,…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to…

— Anonymous

“life is like drawing a picture with a permanent marker, you screw up and it messes up the whole thing”

— T.A.Z

Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

— Ouida

My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.

— John James Audubon

Drawing and Success has one similarity, if you believe in it, you can create it.

— @efiosiugbore

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

— J. R. R. Tolkien

My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good.

— Ellsworth Kelly

There is but one fountain of comfort for a man drawing near to his end, and that is the Bible. ...All comfort…

— J. C. Ryle

Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience.

— Walter J. Phillips

All the drawings and sketches and clothes of Yves Saint Laurent in the '70s were so colorful, so bright.

— Frida Giannini

It is the brushwork of the right value and color which should produce the drawing.

— Camille Pissarro

When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to?

— Bob Monkhouse

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

— Wallace Tripp

I sketch the faces upside down because it's like drawing from the left side of the brain or the right side of…

— Stevie Nicks