Drawing Quotes

1222 Drawing quotes by 832 unique authors

Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of one's true being.… — Ramana Maharshi
I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing. — Vincent Van Gogh
Everything starts from a dot. — Wassily Kandinsky
I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing... then I want to do something modest; to work out by myself a tiny,… — Paul Klee
I still come closest to success with drawing. — Paul Klee
An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake. — Paul Klee
A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness. — Joan Miro
I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely. — Henry Moore
Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm. — Pablo Picasso
I draw like other people bite their nails. — Pablo Picasso
I have drawn all my life, I don't know how to live without drawing. — Eduardo Chillida
I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I'd always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn't. — Roy Lichtenstein
Drawing is putting a line around an idea. — Henri Matisse
Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form. — Edgar Degas
Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves. — Robert Henri
Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention. — Robert Henri
You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work. — Robert Henri
Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing. — Robert Henri
Count on big lines to express your ideas. — Robert Henri
The straight line is ungodly. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser
The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the paper. I have… — Willem de Kooning
Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic. — Keith Haring
For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like as much as anything I… — Robert Motherwell
If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible. — Alberto Giacometti

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