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Drawing Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh
- I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.
- What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.
- It constantly remains a source of disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The difficulties are indeed…
- Drawing is the root of everything.
- Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in…
- My aim in life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life...…
- Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.
- I felt my energy return and that I said to myself, in any event I'll recover from it, I'll pick up my pencil that I…
- I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.
- When I have a model who is quiet and steady and with whom I am acquainted, then I draw repeatedly 'til there is one drawing…
- I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even…
- Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be…
- I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.
- In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will…
- I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.
- The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for…
- As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.
- Thank God, I have my work, but instead of earning money by it, I need money to be able to work; that is the difficulty.…
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- 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
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- One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's something about… — Scott Adams
- Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. — John Berger
- For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true. — John Berger
- I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does. — Victoria Beckham