Drawings Quotes · Page 2

I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to ten minutes.

— Ellsworth Kelly

I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

— Agnes Denes

We don't sell technical drawings except when they are incorporated into a drawing or a collage.

— Christo

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

I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

— Neil Farber

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

My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.

— John James Audubon

Therefore, when we arrive in a place and talk to new people about a new image, it is very hard for them…

— Christo

Some drawings are better than others... Some are utterly spoiled... I keep them all. I find a use sometimes even for the…

— Walter J. Phillips

And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea,…

— Christo

My ideas I can find anywhere. And I draw because I have to note down my ideas or flashes - I call…

— Ellsworth Kelly

It's very important to understand that we never do the same thing twice; each of our projects is unique. We'll never do…

— Christo

When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to…

— Alberto Giacometti

In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft drawings, and I…

— Jeff Kinney

I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate…

— Devdutt Pattanaik

I always did drawings. Then, few years ago, I started working with large-scale paper. It's an extension of performance, because the pieces…

— Rebecca Horn

“He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been granted the secret of motion, his…

— Steven Millhauser

“As there is no appearance of daylight, what is to be done during the night? It occurred to me that I would…

— Victor Hugo

“His drawings were not originals then, only copies. He must have been doing them as a sort of retirement hobby, he was…

— Margaret Atwood

I've always been a 'write first' artist: the drawings are always in service of the writing.

— Jeffrey Brown

You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.

— Richard MacDonald

All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.

— Tite Kubo

I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.

— Sally Phillips

I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects.

— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I've got two girls, and they both make beautiful drawings. One of them really has a gift for the way that she…

— Mark Grotjahn

My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

— Odilon Redon

I'd like to study the drawings of kids. That's where the truth is, without a doubt.

— Andre Derain

I have tons of drawings of 'Star Wars,' whether it be stormtroopers, Darth Vader, Star Destroyers, or the whole thing.

— Michael Giacchino

“as I really don’t think I draw all that well, but it was interesting to see that some of the drawings worked…

— David Sherwin

Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with…

— Alex Lifeson

I rarely draw myself, in general, and if I do, I tend to do little cute manga-esque, almost bite-sized drawings of myself.

— Jim Lee

Unlike the photography and prints, I never catalogued, kept track of or exhibited the sketches. I sold some occasionally, but never saw…

— Gerhard Richter

I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses…

— David Hockney

The drawings don't start with 'a beautiful mark'. It has to be a mark of something out there in the world. It…

— William Kentridge

The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the…

— Willem de Kooning

Possibly the strangest book ever made, the 'Codex Seraphinianus' is an encyclopedia of an imaginary world, with illegible calligraphy - it is…

— Russell Smith

The novels have done so well because the drawings are abstract, black-and-white. This adds to the universality of the story. "Persepolis" also…

— Marjane Satrapi

I suppose we carry photographs now, but I think it's rather wonderful that people used to carry drawings and watercolours. I wish…

— Alison Jackson