Drawing Quotes · Page 40

I think the best thing I learned from drawing comics is that it's a great exercise in concision.

— Patrice Leconte

My father would sit and design furniture and cabinets - he was a carpenter and cabinet maker - and I would ask…

— Burne Hogarth

I had TB as a child. So I was put to doing things like drawing and reading. And I was raised in…

— Katherine Helmond

I do a lot of research, I try to think about how it relates to music and I just do a ton…

— Gerard Way

A mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it.

— Walter J. Phillips

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

Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.

— Adam Gopnik

In every art beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. And it is not…

— Ruth Whitman

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

— Joyce Grenfell

Back in my high school years, the Hulk was my favorite Marvel character, and I always enjoy drawing him.

— Jim Starlin

I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.

— Henry Moore

You work for so long on a graphic novel that it's easy to question your ideas or to burn out on drawing.…

— Vera Brosgol

But still when the mists of doubt prevail, And we lie becalmed by the shores of age, We hear from the misty…

— Bret Harte

In times of stress drawing is a way of relieving tension.

— Gene Black

Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.

— Edgar Degas

I remember the special quiet of rainy days when I felt that I could enter the pages of my beautiful picture books.…

— Jan Brett

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

— Bob Monkhouse

Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every…

— John Muir

I keep drawing inspiration from people every day. All of a sudden, something strikes me so hard and dramatically, and then a…

— Dev Anand

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work…

— Brooke McEldowney

It constantly remains a source of disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I draw in my sleep (dream of drawing) a lot. I don't think I have ever drawn anything in real life while…

— Jason Polan

People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain…

— Eric S. Raymond

We have entered a new and different world-richly interconnected and radically multicentric-in which the traditional holders of power have to move over…

— Walter Truett Anderson

I bet you’re really good with your hands, all that drawing and building.

— Valerie Thomas