Drawing Quotes

1222 Drawing quotes by 832 unique authors

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh. — John Singer Sargent
For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something. — Marjane Satrapi
I had two major activities as a child. I was trying to put on shows with kids in my street, or I was drawing. Actually,… — Marjane Satrapi
Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means… — Marjane Satrapi
I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like… — Maurice Sendak
I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most… — Dr. Seuss
I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist. — Patti Smith
I didn't begin my life in 1975 with 'Horses.' I recorded 'Horses' in 1975, but was drawing in Paris in 1969. — Patti Smith
Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting… — Patti Smith
Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing. — Layne Staley
On a purely personal level, it's very strange, because as a kid, Superman informed my personality. Now I've been given the job of forming Superman's… — J. Michael Straczynski
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and… — William Strunk, Jr.
A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption. — James Thurber
My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because… — Vince Vaughn
Blog-based businesses have lower cost structures and are more 'authentic,' and as a result are drawing larger shares of ad budgets. — Fred Wilson
That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand… — Jim Woodring
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of… — Virginia Woolf
I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art.… — Steven Wright
Seating themselves on the greensward, they eat while the corks fly and there is talk, laughter and merriment, and perfect freedom, for the universe is… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it. — Edward Gorey
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We're living in momentous times, Garion. The events of a thousand years and more have all focused on these very days. The world, I'm told,… — David Eddings
Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts… — Henry Miller
When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. — Jeanette Winterson
What if you believed that everything in life was like a prize? What if you thought of the world as a big random drawing, and… — Dan Chaon

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