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Drawing Quotes by Henry Moore
- I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.
- Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
- All art should have a certain mystery and should make demands on the spectator. Giving a sculpture or a drawing too explicit a title takes…
- I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.
- I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to realize as sculpture... And I sometimes draw just for…
- The construction of the human figure, its tremendous variety of balance, of size, of rhythm, all those things make the human form much more difficult…
- I sometimes begin a drawing with no preconceived problem to solve, with only the desire to use pencil on paper... but as my eye takes…
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