Drawing Quotes

1222 Drawing quotes by 832 unique authors

Spaces between the forms, or the negative shapes, play just as great a role as the positives and they enable you to check the accuracy… — Stan Smith
The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala and… — George Grosz
An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but everything that happens… — Jacques Derrida
Compare constantly, lines and angles... Hold looking-glass before your model and your drawing. Take a second's glance only, and see if the impression be the… — William Morris Hunt
Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend… — Marlene Dumas
Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that. — Adam Gopnik
Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the… — Adam Gopnik
Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment. — Adam Gopnik
When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of… — Alberto Giacometti
It is the bareness of drawing that I like. The act of drawing is what locates, suggests, discovers. At times it seems enough to draw,… — Philip Guston
Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my… — Sol LeWitt
I was always into noir. When I lived in Vermont I was drawing stuff that looked like an amateur doing Sin City. When I first… — Frank Miller
The teacher showed us how to see proportions, relationships, light and shadow, negative space, and space between space - something I never noticed before! In… — Daniel H. Pink
It is the brushwork of the right value and color which should produce the drawing. — Camille Pissarro
The architect must not only understand drawing, but music. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design. — Matt Smith
It is through drawing that masters are first revealed, through drawing that they live and prove their value, whatever variations they may impose on their… — Michael Gerard Bauer
There is only one right way to draw... physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses. — Kimon Nicolaides
You are not to think of painting as something separate from drawing. — Kimon Nicolaides
When we use numbers we are using symbols, and it is only when we transfer them to life that they become actualities. The same is… — Kimon Nicolaides

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