Drawing Quotes · Page 29

Be careful how you speak to people and how you treat people, life if the art of drawing without an eraser

— Anonymous

The most natural thing for us is drawing. The characters [in Persepolis] are hand drawn. We're not technical people. We don't know…

— Marjane Satrapi

Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.

— Gerald Scarfe

The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far more interesting than the…

— Andy Goldsworthy

“A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption. A word to the wise is not sufficient if it…

— James Thurber

Someone who is incapable of drawing, and cannot master line or colour perspective can always express themselves in some form of abstraction.

— Hans Werner Henze

Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.

— Adam Gopnik

I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawing board at home that…

— Quentin Blake

In 1978 I decided not to work with Man Ray as an act of self-discipline. I didn't want to rely on him.…

— William Wegman

I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words…

— Scott Adams

The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher…

— Lou Doillon

I sometimes begin a drawing with no preconceived problem to solve, with only the desire to use pencil on paper... but as…

— Henry Moore

The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of…

— Thomas Carlyle

Pulling a gun's trigger can be an appalling act. But if it is suicidal drawing fire to save someone, it has an…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

To draw a tree, to pay such close attention to every aspect of a tree, is an act of reverence not only…

— Alan Lee

I would show my jobs to my mother, and she would always say the same thing: "That's nice dear". And then she…

— Brian Webb

What kills music in films is when it's done as performance, drawing attention to the fact that someone's in the background playing…

— Ry Cooder

A gift, like a good friend drawing a personal road map out of the crazy busy swirl of our overloaded lives.

— Brigid Schulte

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

— Norman McLaren

Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

— John Howe

I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.

— Robyn Hitchcock

“Most people don’t have shit… But paper and pencils are cheap, that’s why I draw.”

— Ida Løkås

I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.

— Daniel Clowes

Some individuals relish the fact that they are not drawing attention and can quietly go about their game while others want to…

— Gautam Gambhir

Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.

— Marjane Satrapi

Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape

— Loren Eiseley

Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.

— Martha Ostenso

Stop the bullsh*t. Stop drawing lines in the sand like previous generations [have done].

— Michael Skolnik

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

There is only one right way to draw... physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses.

— Kimon Nicolaides

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them…

— Chuck Jones

Even if it flops, when you're sitting at the drawing table, you dream about seeing your work on the big screen, no…

— Rob Liefeld

I was sickly as a child and gravitated to books and drawing. During my early teen years, I spent hundreds of hours…

— Maurice Sendak

I love you for putting your hand into my heaped up heart and passing over all the frivolous and weak things that…

— Roy Croft

The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep…

— Thomas Jefferson

I got into animals by drawing hair follicles. I liked drawing hair, and from that I got into feathers and fur, then…

— Kiki Smith

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language,…

— Hilma Wolitzer

Ritual is one of the ways in which humans put their lives in perspective, whether it be Purim, Advent, or drawing down…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest.…

— Edmund Burke

What do drawings mean to me? I really don't know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that…

— John Berger