Drawings Quotes

210 Drawings quotes by 150 unique authors

Dawn is about luminosity and so is the iPhone... The little drawings of the dawn are done while I'm still in bed... If you're in… — David Hockney
Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about... I… — David Hockney
I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I… — David Hockney
And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such. — Andrew Wyeth
Those who are not conversant in works of art are often surprised at the high value set by connoisseurs on drawings which appear careless, and… — Joshua Reynolds
The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for… — Eugene Delacroix
Practice by drawing things large, as if equal in representation and reality. In small drawings every large weakness is easily hidden; in the large, the… — Leon Battista Alberti
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
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
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
Some drawings are better than others... Some are utterly spoiled... I keep them all. I find a use sometimes even for the worst drawing... But… — Walter J. Phillips
Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that... awakens in me a passionate desire to inhabit it, as though I… — Jean Helion
A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who… — Yves Saint Laurent
I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found... that, having done… — Artemisia Gentileschi
I know I draw without taking my pen off the page. I just keep going, and that my drawings I think of them as scribbles.… — Frank Gehry
I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners. — Vincent Van Gogh
The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all.… — Matt Groening
Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a… — Cathy Guisewite
I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight… — David Hockney
I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump… — Bil Keane
I like my drawings to be direct. I don't generally work on them for too long, but that doesn't mean that they are not works… — Jeff Koons
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
My drawing for women is really curvy. My drawings for men are actually quite angular. — Christian Louboutin
Being on a trapeze is like dreaming. I feel totally outside of myself when I'm flying. You know, designing shoes, my imagination is flying in… — Christian Louboutin
I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless… — Marcel Marceau

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