Drawing Quotes · Page 24

I was 11 when I was first introduced to live drawing classes and going to art school.

— Kehinde Wiley

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.

— Alvar Aalto

It wasn't that I wanted to be an artist. But when I took my first drawing class with the painter Doug Ohlson,…

— Lynne Tillman

I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into…

— Bjarke Ingels

“When you draw and pay attention to what is, it's a form of being present. This inspires the mind, makes it happy,…

— Natalie Goldberg

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.

— Edgar Degas

I can't be happy with drawing or losing a match. It actually makes me really sad when that happens.

— Alexis Sanchez

It's possible to keep drawing this moment out, any moment, hammering it thinner and thinner like beaten gold, like iced chablis, whipping…

— Susan Mitchell

I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also…

— Leon Battista Alberti

Throughout my career, when I was finished with the drawing for one film I would go up to the story department and…

— Marc Davis

My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I…

— James Thurber

If attendance figures are someone's gauge of effectiveness, there's literally no end to the crazy schemes that person will try to legitimize…

— John MacArthur

There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed.…

— Anthony Trollope

“Drawing is a form of probing. And the first generic impulse to draw derives from the human need to search, to plot…

— John Berger

I think anything that you can use to connect is fine. For some people it's meditation. For some people it's yoga. For…

— Wayne Dyer

I usually use quick sketches that I accumulated from the figure drawing classes I once instructed.

— Frank Bruno

Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines.

— E. J. Hughes

You booked him, and you didn't worry about crowds. For drawing power in the South, it was Roy Acuff, then God.

— Hank Williams

As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much.

— Chris Van Allsburg

Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.

— Leonardo da Vinci

If you're still drawing breath, God's not done with you yet. Don't quit. Be brave and believe God is for you.

— Beth Moore

“We who draw do so not only to make something visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable…

— John Berger

Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a…

— Kristin Hannah

Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old…

— William Cowper

LIFE is an art of drawing without eraser. So Be careful while taking any small decision about valuable pages of life.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I am really fond of drawing, painting mehendi, so I would draw mehendi on a groom's hand and earn money.

— Mrunal Thakur

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my…

— Peter Wright

Drawing a funny animal, you don't need a lot of detail to make it work. But to draw a sexy girl, there's…

— John Kricfalusi

Latin AP was a struggle. There were a lot of people in class drawing pictures during that, but I took it seriously.

— Mary Cain

To be sociable, I puffed on a marijuana cigarette, but I didn't inhale...I just hate the idea of drawing smoke into my…

— Tony Abbott

There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that…

— Raymond Pettibon

I have a theory that I did most of my observing probably before I was twenty, stored it, and am still drawing…

— Joyce Grenfell

You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested in the present.

— Al Hirschfeld

My drawing for women is really curvy. My drawings for men are actually quite angular.

— Christian Louboutin

I'd love to be an artist. My mum is so talented and she used to design her own greetings cards. I'm crap…

— Daisy May Cooper

Going to so many book events keeps me connected with my readership while constantly reminding me that all the long hours at…

— Raina Telgemeier

I hated art as a kid. I didn't even like art class. I didn't like to draw. I would make my dad…

— Wade Guyton

Ever since I met you it hasnt been the same. All youve got me doing is drawing hearts around your name !!

— AaRon_CcHan

One time I covered a wall with 8.5×11 pages of drawings, which made things feel a little bit different in the room.

— Jason Polan