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Drawing Quotes by Henri Matisse
- Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
- Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
- When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.
- Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.
- Drawing is of the spirit; color is of the senses.
- A colourist makes his presence known even in a simple charcoal drawing.
- Composition, the aim of which is expression, alters itself according to the surface to be covered. If I take a sheet of paper of given…
- I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but…
- Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
More Drawing Quotes
- I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot… — Margaret Atwood
- When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. — John James Audubon
- My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish. — John James Audubon
- The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. — John James Audubon
- One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil. — Balthus
- I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven. — Iain Banks
- I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words… — Scott Adams
- One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's something about… — Scott Adams
- Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. — John Berger
- For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true. — John Berger
- I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does. — Victoria Beckham