Drawing Quotes

1222 Drawing quotes by 832 unique authors

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. — Samuel Butler
I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists… — David Byrne
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. — Paul Cezanne
Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book… — Cesar Chavez
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn't seem to… — Eric Clapton
You know, it's a big version of an episode, which I think is necessary at this point because we're drawing in people who not only… — Gillian Anderson
The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes...… — Michelangelo
We do a wealth of stuff (live), drawing from over the years. — Jorma Kaukonen
It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without a choice of fabric -… — Giorgio Armani
In the end, worship can never be a performance, something you're pretending or putting on. It's got to be an overflow of your heart...Worship is… — Matt Redman
Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui. — Thomas Jefferson
Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother… — Thomas Jefferson
By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit. — Mahatma Gandhi
I have no doubt in my mind that our chief national problems relating to the eradication of poverty, illiteracy and disease and the scientific production… — Subhas Chandra Bose
In forgiving, people are not being asked to forget. On the contrary, it is important to remember, so that we should not let such atrocities… — Mark Twain
The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real… — Thomas Carlyle
...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of their own inner… — James Jeans
As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition.… — Isaac Newton
I have a peculiar theory about radium, and I believe it is the correct one. I believe that there is some mysterious ray pervading the… — Thomas A. Edison
Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear. — Joseph Joubert
What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The essence of drawing is the line exploring space. — Andy Goldsworthy

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