Drawing Quotes

1222 quotes by 861 authors

I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse myself, and if it has… — Aubrey Beardsley
The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and still… — Hilma af Klint
Drawing is deception. — M.C. Escher
What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.… — Hokusai
"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of… — John Green
There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed." And I'd say, 'Yeah well,… — Michael Leunig
I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet ... the evenings in late autumn time, when… — Jerome K. Jerome
The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its… — William Butler
Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as ifit were an… — Rudy Rucker
In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built. — Emilio Ambasz
...Although, as the Latin verb to educate, educate, indicates, it is not a question of putting something in but drawing it out, if it is… — Martha Graham
Well, back to the old drawing board. — Peter Arno
First make sure that what you aspire to accomplish is worth accomplishing, and then throw your whole vitality into it. What's worth doing is worth… — B. C. Forbes
But we must also look at renewable heat technology. More combined heat and power schemes, putting waste heat to better use. More district heating schemes.… — Chris Huhne
Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy… — Frederick Buechner
The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how to pray in… — Thomas Merton
True intimacy is a human constant. People of all types find it equally hard to achieve, equally precious to hold. Age, education, social status, make… — Robert Grudin
The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. — James Madison
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature. — Robert South

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