Drawing Quotes

1222 Drawing quotes by 832 unique authors

When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk about the book,… — Didi Conn
I must have been born under an unlucky star. You know I have filled out entry blanks for every single drawing in the supermarket for… — Unknown Author
A mental image gives you a framework upon which to work. It is like the drawing of the architect, or the map of the explorer.… — William Walker Atkinson
Actually, I don't really draw that well. It's just that I don't stop trying as quickly. I keep at it. I happen to have high… — Milt Kahl
I was a high school student like Picasso. I was a little eccentric, but I had high ideals. I wanted to get along well with… — Unknown Author
Directing ain't about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn't want to go to film school. I didn't know… — David Fincher
All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
My work has to do with a defense against fervor. People are always in a rush. To do what? To do nothing! There is a… — Louise Bourgeois
I was teaching live drawing in a community college and students started zoning in on the face and spending a couple of hours on that… — John Baldessari
...deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations — Jonathon Porritt
Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast… — Henry James
All intervening steps, scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed work models, studies thoughts, conversations, are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist are… — Sol LeWitt
Drawing is the necessary beginning of everything [in Art], and not having it, one has nothing. — Giorgio Vasari
I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I… — PJ Harvey
Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
It's funny, but many people don't understand why I draw so many games nowadays. They think my style must have changed but this is not… — Mikhail Tal
Try drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination. — Kevin Henkes
I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work -- it sounds too much like a sun shower from the heavens, absorbed… — Shaun Tan
I’m amorous but out of reach / A still life drawing of a peach. — Fiona Apple
I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. — Edmund Burke
Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the… — Julia Child
It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion… — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not… — Andrew Solomon
Bravely you jog along with the rope of class distinction drawing closer, close, tighter, tighter around you... I see it and know it, but I… — Miles Franklin

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