Drawing Quotes

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Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast… — Henry James
All intervening steps, scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed work models, studies thoughts, conversations, are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist are… — Sol LeWitt
Drawing is the necessary beginning of everything [in Art], and not having it, one has nothing. — Giorgio Vasari
I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I… — PJ Harvey
Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
It's funny, but many people don't understand why I draw so many games nowadays. They think my style must have changed but this is not… — Mikhail Tal
Try drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination. — Kevin Henkes
I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work -- it sounds too much like a sun shower from the heavens, absorbed… — Shaun Tan
Iâ€™m amorous but out of reach / A still life drawing of a peach. — Fiona Apple
I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. — Edmund Burke
Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the… — Julia Child
It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion… — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not… — Andrew Solomon
Bravely you jog along with the rope of class distinction drawing closer, close, tighter, tighter around you... I see it and know it, but I… — Miles Franklin
The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young… — Jacques Barzun
Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as far from them… — Gore Vidal
The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood. — Gautama Buddha
'As I am, so are these. As are these, so am I.' Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill. — Gautama Buddha
Women are important in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. But while their faces are seen everywhere- in oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, - their voices are never heard. — Jan Marsh

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