Drawing Quotes

1222 Drawing quotes by 832 unique authors

I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing… — Louise Bourgeois
A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished. — Charles Webster Hawthorne
No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of paper and a… — John Newman
Some drawings are better than others... Some are utterly spoiled... I keep them all. I find a use sometimes even for the worst drawing... But… — Walter J. Phillips
A mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it. — Walter J. Phillips
Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to retain it. He… — Walter J. Phillips
Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that... awakens in me a passionate desire to inhabit it, as though I… — Jean Helion
Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a… — Michael Kimmelman
Drawing is still the bottom line. — Robert Genn
For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity. — Robert Genn
I've found from years of trial that the only way I can work is to make sketches in pencil from Nature, purely as reference material… — E. J. Hughes
Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines. — E. J. Hughes
If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the… — Edgar Allan Poe
I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views… — Benvenuto Cellini
A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who… — Yves Saint Laurent
Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way." ... "Surely… — John Muir
We seem to know when to 'tap the heart.' Others have hit the intellect. We can hit them in all emotional way. Those who appeal… — Walt Disney
Disneyland is a work of love...Drawing up plans and dreaming of what I could do, everything. It was just something I kind of kept playing… — Walt Disney
To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings… — Ralph Allen
Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified. — Maxwell Perkins
I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found... that, having done… — Artemisia Gentileschi
I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid. — David Salle
There was about six months when I was absorbing other stuff and not drawing very much. After a long period of not drawing, you have… — Bryan Lee O'Malley
I don't want to spend my entire life drawing talking heads. It seems like a waste of everyone's time. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

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