Drawing Quotes · Page 47

A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is…

— John Berger

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

— Bret Harte

I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people…

— Mike Thompson

It was by coincidence that I ended up opening my first shop in 1968, and I haven't stopped since. I now find…

— Sonia Rykiel

Give heed to the cause of the holy Roman Church, mother of all churches and teacher of the faith, whom you by…

— Pope Leo X

I paint; I'm a woman but I don't paint china. The first time I got a canvas I felt free. Art is…

— Alice Neel

The words represent ideas first of all. That is something you have to understand. I mean, it is not just an object,…

— Robert Barry

We would never call inexplicable little insights hunches, for fear of drawing the universe's attention. But they happened, and you knew you…

— China Mieville

When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort,…

— Winston Churchill

I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted…

— Michelle Williams

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak -…

— Raina Telgemeier

Sometimes I'm drawing onto a computer directly, sometimes I'm drawing on paper , so I can't really talk about drafts. It's just…

— Art Spiegelman

Each book requires a different look. Sometimes I get to take a personal direction that's appropriate for the story. I try to…

— Cliff Chiang

What is drawing? How does one get there? It's working one's way through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between…

— Vincent Van Gogh

He had been someone before. That person had been the result of a lifetime of choices, good and bad. And like it…

— Marcus Sakey

As you are aware, no perceptions obtained by the senses are merely sensations impressed on our nervous systems. A peculiar intellectual activity…

— Hermann von Helmholtz

All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb tall trees and say shocking…

— Catherynne M. Valente

An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past,…

— Carl Jung

It was dark in the alcove, so dark that Jace was only an outline of shadows and gold. His body pinned Clary's…

— Cassandra Clare

I was 3 years old and Mary Poppins [1964] made an impression on me that was seismic, apparently. I fell into some…

— Todd Haynes

When the sense of solidarity has been developed to such a point that each one feels the cause of all others as…

— Ellen Key

The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds…

— Arthur C. Clarke

As to the 'St. Michael,' the subject is very fine, but very difficult, so I doubt that I shall find easily amongst…

— Peter Paul Rubens

At that time, I was still in an experimental stage, trying to blend Western drawing techniques and Chinese brushwork together. It was…

— Liu Dan

When we were small, Rose and I used to play a game called connect the dots. I loved it. I loved drawing…

— Franny Billingsley

By the time the child can draw more that scribble, by the age of four or five years, an already well-formed body…

— Karl Buhler

While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my…

— Margaret Atwood

The advice I would give to any photographer - young, old or in-between - is to explore anything visual because this is,…

— Elliott Erwitt

The whole basis of working in black and white and grays became the basis of my understanding of color, because it's all…

— David Small

“Some days drawing is a real struggle. Hopefully, using the exercises in this book, it will become easier and more and more…

— Cliff Wright

“I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English or…

— Sherman Alexie

I like the spreads - designing them is a welcome challenge - but for a dyed-in-the-wool page-a-day journeyman like me, it can…

— Stuart Immonen

It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes. The…

— Maria Montessori

“Here, this is for you," the girl said, holding out one of the pages on which she'd been drawing. "Oh, I... well,…

— Tracy Anne Warren

I'm not a sculptor; I'm a hard-edged model maker. You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you…

— Adam Savage

We should lay up in our minds a store of goodly thoughts which will be a living treasure of knowledge always with…

— Arthur Helps

I have wanted my party to be guided by liberal instincts, and inspired by progressive goals while also drawing on a deep…

— Nick Boles

All the old bogeys of 'dignified subject-matter,' of 'balanced compositions,' of 'correct drawing' were laid to rest. The artist was responsible to…

— Ernst Gombrich

From since I could remember I've always been an artist, drawing, painting and so forth. I would also always draw made up…

— Ashley Purdy