Drawing Quotes

1222 Drawing quotes by 832 unique authors

A true Educator locates the intelligence and abilities within another, drawing them out for all, even the student, to see. And then steps out of… — L. Ron Hubbard
Drawing is the root of everything. — Vincent Van Gogh
If you're still drawing breath, God's not done with you yet. Don't quit. Be brave and believe God is for you. — Beth Moore
Everything in life is drawing, if you want. Drawing is quintessential to knowing the self. Art that survives from one generation to the next is… — Richard Tuttle
Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination. — Tim Burton
In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best. — Ellsworth Kelly
Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing. — Brenda Ueland
I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if… — LeRoy Neiman
Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a strong distortion of… — Alexander Rodchenko
I am trying to represent design through drawing. I have always drawn things to a high degree of detail. That is not an ideological position… — Neil Denari
I have drawn things since I was 6. All that I made before the age of 65 is not worth counting. At 73 I began… — Hokusai
There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing. — Toni Morrison
The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions. — Virginia Woolf
Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls. — Frank Darabont
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in… — Vincent Van Gogh
The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous… — Arthur C. Clarke
Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and… — Kurt Vonnegut
Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms — Joseph McCabe
There is, however, a change going on in the world. There's far more interest in drawing now than there has been in a long, long… — Leonard Baskin
This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil… — Edvard Munch
This sacrifice of a pawn nowadays is only played for drawing purposes. Especially against the very strongest masters it has proved to be quite useful… — Jan Hein Donner
We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing and painting, in… — Olaus Murie
If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing. — Anna Seward
It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand. — Henri Rousseau
We would never call inexplicable little insights hunches, for fear of drawing the universe's attention. But they happened, and you knew you had been in… — China Mieville

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