Drawing Quotes

1222 Drawing quotes by 832 unique authors

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make. — David Hockney
Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache. — David Hockney
I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium. — David Hockney
I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually. — David Hockney
I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay. — David Hockney
Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing? — David Hockney
I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the… — David Hockney
I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight… — David Hockney
How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident. — William Morris Hunt
When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life… — John Irving
The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and… — Chuck Jones
I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L'… — Bil Keane
When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing… — Bil Keane
I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump… — Bil Keane
A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in… — Charles Kingsley
A drawing is simply a line going for a walk. — Paul Klee
A line is a dot that went for a walk. — Paul Klee
In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and… — Paul Klee
I like my drawings to be direct. I don't generally work on them for too long, but that doesn't mean that they are not works… — Jeff Koons
If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about… — Jeff Koons
I am still in love with couture because it is just two months from drawing pad to runway so everything on the catwalk is hot… — Christian Lacroix
My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener… — Lillie Langtry
When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper,… — Lucy Larcom
England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or… — Daniel Day-Lewis
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real… — Georg C. Lichtenberg

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