Drawing Quotes · Page 23

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

— John Berger

Your mental attitude gives your entire personality a drawing power that attracts the circumstances, things and people you think about most!

— Napoleon Hill

I would draw my own comic book characters listening to metal. The drawing and music kind of went hand in hand.

— Alan Robert

You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writing and drawing a character.

— Rebecca Sugar

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.

— Patti Smith

I thought I would draw or paint or be an architect. I was always drawing portraits. My mom put me in art…

— Chadwick Boseman

he line has almost become a work of art in itself; one can not play with it when the representation of objects…

— Theo van Doesburg

From being a young kid I was always drawing and painting, usually stuff like private parts or bloody images but always with…

— Tom Six

If there is no idea in the drawing, there is no idea in the constructed project. That's the expression of the idea.…

— Lebbeus Woods

The misery of other people is only an abstraction something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one's own experiences.…

— Nicole Krauss

As someone who writes and teaches YA fiction, I spend a lot of time trying to define its character and readership, and…

— Robin Wasserman

Bravely you jog along with the rope of class distinction drawing closer, close, tighter, tighter around you... I see it and know…

— Miles Franklin

Leaders are visionaries. They see the outcome. Leaders are communicators. They tell us what they're seeing. They hold the dream, letting us…

— Susan Collins

Was it me you were discussing?” he countered with lifted brows. “I couldn’t tell from the description you were giving. Since when…

— Judith McNaught

I drew pictures rapidly and with few lines, because I had to write most of the pieces, too, and couldn't monkey long…

— James Thurber

Simon had drawn three pictures. In the top left corner, like a salutation, was a ghost. The middle had a big sketch…

— Kelley Armstrong

My drawings are another kind of music for me...they relax me and I think they all connect somehow.

— Shelby Lynne

There's something refreshing about going into filming and not brushing your hair, letting your toenails chip, drawing darker circles under your eyes.

— Jodie Comer

Express yourself through your art - whether it’s your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick,…

— Kat Von D

Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!

— Virginia Woolf

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

— Taylor Hackford

If you are drawing a blank, or are having a hard time drawing a certain thing, then it is because you have…

— Glen Keane

Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?

— Eckhart Tolle

Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and…

— Pat Oliphant

If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to…

— Jostein Gaarder

I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano.

— Peter Lawford

I find that if somebody is writing and drawing a comic book, planning it to be a movie and a game at…

— Frank Miller

When I was a kid, I was always drawing things. I'd get butcher paper or grocery bags and draw on them.

— Charles Bronson

He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.

— William Blake

The goal is glorifying God by drawing circles around the promises, miracles, and dreams He wants for you.

— Mark Batterson

I had so many ideas that I wanted to get out at once that it led to simple little drawings and paintings.

— Neil Farber

I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad…

— Paul Conrad

I no longer enjoy drawing people's pets. I just want to draw what I want to draw and have people not tell…

— Lisa Hanawalt

I think the way kids create is so inspiring. They're drawing a picture? They love the picture they drew; they're not tortured…

— Spike Jonze

If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it.

— Stan Smith

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

— Arshile Gorky

An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake.

— Paul Klee

The tattoo can only exist as part of the skin, as a drawing always is an incision in the material and therefore…

— Antoni Tapies

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

— Ulysses S. Grant

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

— Jasper Johns