Drawing Quotes

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When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion. — Henri Matisse
Painting figures is the hardest, certainly the most taxing genre, and you have to be the most on your game. If you have significant drawing… — Unknown Author
When you draw a nude, sketch the whole figure and nicely fit the members to it and to each other. Even though you may only… — Leonardo da Vinci
Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both… — Robert Genn
The advice I would give to any photographer - young, old or in-between - is to explore anything visual because this is, after all, how… — Elliott Erwitt
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.… — John Berger
I'd like to be an architect. That would be cool. I like drawing. — Justin Bieber
It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables. — Gil Kane
The principle factor in my success has been an absolute desire to draw constantly. I never decided to be an artist. Simply, I couldn't stop… — Winsor McCay
Any idiot that wants to make a couple of thousand drawings for a hundred feet of film is welcome to join the club. — Winsor McCay
The practice of yoga induces a primary sense of measure and proportion. Reduced to our own body, our first instrument, we learn to play it,… — Yehudi Menuhin
It constantly remains a source of disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The difficulties are indeed… — Vincent Van Gogh
Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads. — Jerry Fodor
We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms… — Helen Frankenthaler
At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or three… — Lee Krasner
I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that I needed for… — Nancy Spero
By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind. — B.K.S. Iyengar
I am constantly drawing inspiration from everything I see-the places I travel, the people I know and the movies I see. — Ralph Lauren
I write the book for one person â€” for Fiona [Staples, the artist]. I spend a lot of time just thinking how she'll react to… — Brian K. Vaughan
If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for… — Harry Allen Overstreet

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