Drawings Quotes

210 quotes by 157 authors

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 of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's something about that that keeps… — Scott Adams
Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette. — Bill Blass
My website's kind of fun for me. I get to do drawings on that. It's kind of fun. — Jeff Bridges
I don't look at my films or my old drawings much, so that was an interesting way to kind of reconnect with myself a bit. — Tim Burton
Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts. — Christopher Alexander
They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn't seem to… — Eric Clapton
It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without a choice of fabric -… — Giorgio Armani
The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the paper. I have… — Willem de Kooning
A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets. — Paul Gauguin
My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined. — Odilon Redon
I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary. — Gabriele Munter
I must learn to express the gentle vibration of things: the intrinsically rough texture. I must find this expression in drawings; in the way in… — Paula Modersohn-Becker
The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and still… — Hilma af Klint
In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built. — Emilio Ambasz
I know my little 'dirty drawings' are never going to hang in the main salons of the Louvre, but it would be nice if -… — Tom of Finland
In those days, a gay man was made to feel nothing but shame about his feelings and his sexuality. I wanted my drawings to counteract… — Tom of Finland
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
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

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