Drawing Quotes

1222 Drawing quotes by 832 unique authors

I am only a little pencil in the hand of our Lord. He may cut or sharpen the pencil. He may write or draw whatever… — Mother Teresa
Symmetria by the Uccello Project is a gorgeous, instrumental and largely unclassifiable record. Best thought of as 'cinematic', each of the tracks conjures up a… — Steve Lawson
But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it. — William Shakespeare
The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art. — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Draw lines - draw a lot of lines — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Drawing takes time. A line has time in it — David Hockney
I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen — Frederick Franck
Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile, and… — Cennino Cennini
The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing. — John French Sloan
The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a… — Alain de Botton
An individual's ability to draw is... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from verbal, analytic processing… — Betty Edwards
I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking. — Ben Nicholson
Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience. — Walter J. Phillips
Pure drawing is an abstraction. — Paul Cezanne
Drawing is the skeleton of what you do and color is its flesh. — Nicolas Poussin
A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues. — John French Sloan
Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye. — Leonardo da Vinci
I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment. — Henry Moore
My drawings are the result of my sculpture. — Auguste Rodin
In the first place you must study drawing for at least one year; then you must remain with a master at the workshop for the… — Cennino Cennini
The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the… — Leonardo da Vinci
Man was not then considered a good goldsmith unless he could draw well. — Giorgio Vasari
Drawing is the probity of art. To draw does not mean simply to reproduce contours; drawing does not consist merely of line: drawing is also… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as… — John Ruskin
What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to… — Auguste Rodin

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