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Draws Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines…
- A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his…
- Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
- The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if…
- Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting…
- Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to…
- Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its…
- There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.
- In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the…
- Only that mind draws me which I cannot read.
- The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when…
- There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.
- A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.
- A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions…
- If the colleges were better, if they ... had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts which become talents,…
- Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
- Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted,…
- Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience, and spectator, as…
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- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw. — Margaret Atwood
- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood
- Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with… — Saint Augustine
- Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience. — Roger Bacon
- All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It… — David Bailey
- One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil. — Balthus
- I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals. — Lynda Barry
- I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before… — Lynda Barry
- The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my… — Drew Barrymore
- I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- I would sometimes sit in a crowded restaurant, and say, 'You know, I'm the only person in this restaurant who can't draw.' — Scott Adams