Aging Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

I have drawn things since I was 6. All that I made before the age of 65 is not worth counting. At 73 I…

— Hokusai

“You'll see: if you acquire a taste for drawing, you won't be able to do without it, just like me. Hokusai (The Old Man…

— Françoise Place

“He was in old pajama bottoms, with a towel flung over his shoulder, a paintbrush in one hand. There was paint on his bare…

— Cassandra Clare

“In Bengali class, Gogol is taught to read and write his ancestral alphabet, which begins at the back of his throat with an unaspirated…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“His drawings were not originals then, only copies. He must have been doing them as a sort of retirement hobby, he was an incurable…

— Margaret Atwood

“His skin is the green of aging leaves, and his body is covered in thorny vines that move like extended limbs. He raises his…

— Zoraida Córdova

It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now…

— Charles de Lint

The history of drawing is a history of 'realities'. Every age has its own conceptions, held to be true at that time, believed to…

— Howard Scott Warshaw

[He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu fakir who…

— Anonymous

“His face just looks like one of those long, narrow stones in the graveyard, doesn't it? 'Sacred to the memory' ought to be written…

— L.M. Montgomery

“And it must have been then, they caught him all unaware, and lured him away with haunting melodies of earth, ancient and long remembered,…

— Rebecca Carson

“Saku's figure before me looked like a morning glory drawn with one stroke of the brush. My only regret was that the drawing was…

— Sōseki Natsume