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Drawing Quotes by Robert Henri
- Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
- Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.
- You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
- Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
- Count on big lines to express your ideas.
- Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
- A drawing should be a verdict on the model. Don't confuse a drawing with a map.
- Has your drawing the meaning you saw in the model at first?
- If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
- Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our strongest motive is life, humanity; and the stronger the motive back of the line…
- A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.
- A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.
More Drawing Quotes
- I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot… — Margaret Atwood
- When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. — John James Audubon
- My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish. — John James Audubon
- The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. — John James Audubon
- One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil. — Balthus
- I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven. — Iain Banks
- I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words… — Scott Adams