Drawing Quotes

1222 Drawing quotes by 832 unique authors

My aim in life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life...… — Vincent Van Gogh
Just draw 'cause you love it, you know, I think that's why you should be doing it. You should always be doing art for the… — Gerard Way
Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity. — Quentin Blake
What do drawings mean to me? I really don't know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don't think… — John Berger
To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished. — Jasper Johns
To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my… — Pablo Picasso
Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit. — Vincent Van Gogh
Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at. — Robyn Hitchcock
Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk. — Paul Klee
If you are drawing a blank, or are having a hard time drawing a certain thing, then it is because you have not studied it… — Glen Keane
I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand. — Dieter Rams
Knowledge itself is a neutral tool that can be used for good or evil. Wisdom, in contrast, always directs us toward happiness. The task of… — Daisaku Ikeda
There is a part of you that is Love itself, and that is what we must fall into. It is already there. Once you move… — Richard Rohr
The experienced illustrator subscribes to the principle of the application of the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. Should inspiration whisk… — Wallace Tripp
The first ten thousand drawings are the hardest. Put another way, you have ten thousand bad drawings within and should expel them as quickly as… — Wallace Tripp
Prayer is the breath of the new man, drawing in the air of mercy in petitions, and returning it in praises; it proves and maintains… — Matthew Henry
There is but one fountain of comfort for a man drawing near to his end, and that is the Bible. ...All comfort from any other… — J C Ryle
Drawing is the most direct and personal kind of graphic expression. Unlike painting, it doesn't forgive. You put down your black line, and there it… — Tomi Ungerer
I have a lot of friends and family that have suffered because of the church's judgment; my best friend in the world is gay. I… — Derek Webb
I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.'… — Sally Hawkins
DMT was a gaseous wax that you could smoke that gave you a 20-minute psychedelic high. You'd inhale it. And then when you'd exhale—poof, you'd… — Iggy Pop
Few people know that I am also an artist; I truly enjoy sketching and drawing. — Sonakshi Sinha
I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano. — Peter Lawford
I always had a sketchbook with me when I was young. I was hiding behind it, basically, hiding behind drawing because I couldn't cope with… — Robert Crumb
I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing. — Zoey Deutch

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