Top Drawing Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Drawing quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Christopher Fowler
The drawings are terribly good.
- Christopher Fowler
Collection: Drawing
Image of Henry Moore
I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.
- Henry Moore
Collection: Drawing
Image of Kevin Henkes
Try drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination.
- Kevin Henkes
Collection: Drawing
Image of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Bonnat tells me, 'Your painting isn't bad, it is chic, but even so it isn't bad, but your drawing is absolutely atrocious.' So I must gather my courage and start once again.
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Collection: Drawing
Image of Pierre Bonnard
You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.
- Pierre Bonnard
Collection: Drawing
Image of Pierre Bonnard
And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done
- Pierre Bonnard
Collection: Drawing
Image of Katherine Applegate
When I'm drawing a picture, I feel...quiet inside.
- Katherine Applegate
Collection: Drawing
Image of Brad Bird
When caricaturist, Al Hirschfeld, did a drawing of a celebrity, it often looked more like the person than the person did. That's our goal in animation.
- Brad Bird
Collection: Drawing
Image of Anthony Marra
My work often begins as little internal dares, wondering if I can pull something off. So I spent a few years drawing these stories together, trying to build a Pangea of what began as separate continents.
- Anthony Marra
Collection: Drawing
Image of Ouida
Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.
- Ouida
Collection: Drawing
Image of Henri Michaux
It came to me late, as an adult, the desire to draw and participate in the world of lines.
- Henri Michaux
Collection: Drawing
Image of Lynne Truss
Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive to formality or etiquette") comes from the same original root as punctuation.
- Lynne Truss
Collection: Drawing
Image of Jim Woodring
I have a personal definition of cartooning, which is, simply, "imaginative drawing." Anything you're drawing that is not in front of you but is a mental construct that you want to express in a drawing is, to me, a cartoon.
- Jim Woodring
Collection: Drawing
Image of Bob Monkhouse
When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to?
- Bob Monkhouse
Collection: Drawing
Image of Julia Child
Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music.
- Julia Child
Collection: Drawing
Image of Alvar Aalto
God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.
- Alvar Aalto
Collection: Drawing
Image of Yayoi Kusama
Since childhood, I have been painting, for no special reason, numerous dots and nets, drawing from the hallucinations that seem to appear endlessly. I can't explain why if you ask me.
- Yayoi Kusama
Collection: Drawing
Image of Odilon Redon
My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.
- Odilon Redon
Collection: Drawing
Image of Odilon Redon
Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.
- Odilon Redon
Collection: Drawing
Image of Ken Danby
Without good drawing, the foundation of a painting will collapse.
- Ken Danby
Collection: Drawing
Image of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Draw lines - draw a lot of lines
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Collection: Drawing
Image of Charles Webster Hawthorne
A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.
- Charles Webster Hawthorne
Collection: Drawing
Image of Eduardo Chillida
I have drawn all my life, I don't know how to live without drawing.
- Eduardo Chillida
Collection: Drawing
Image of Andre Lhote
Drawing is the sum of directions.
- Andre Lhote
Collection: Drawing
Image of Nicolas de Stael
We must cling only to drawing.
- Nicolas de Stael
Collection: Drawing
Image of Joyce Grenfell
I have a theory that I did most of my observing probably before I was twenty, stored it, and am still drawing on it.
- Joyce Grenfell
Collection: Drawing
Image of Stan Smith
If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it.
- Stan Smith
Collection: Drawing
Image of Wolfgang Pauli
This is to show the world that I can paint like Titian. [A big drawing of a rectangle] Only technical details are missing.
- Wolfgang Pauli
Collection: Drawing
Image of George Wein
Creating festivals made a major impact on society in general because you couldn't draw large crowds indoors. At Newport we were soon drawing crowds of 10,000 and there weren't halls that could hold that many people.
- George Wein
Collection: Drawing
Image of Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
The soul seeks God by faith, not by the reasonings of the mind and labored efforts, but by the drawings of love; to which inclinations God responds, and instructs the soul, which co-operates actively. God then puts the soul in a passive state where He accomplishes all, causing great progress, first by way of enjoyment, then by privation, and finally by pure love.
- Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
Collection: Drawing
Image of Paula Rego
Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.
- Paula Rego
Collection: Drawing
Image of Raul Soldi
Not even pencil or charcoal is needed. Drawing can also be done with a brush. But drawing is a must, if not, no painting can resist.
- Raul Soldi
Collection: Drawing
Image of Jim Dine
For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything.
- Jim Dine
Collection: Drawing
Image of Jim Dine
More important than having a romance with the object that I'm drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I am making.
- Jim Dine
Collection: Drawing
Image of Margaret Cho
I love tattooed women, maybe because they are uncontrollable, they are themselves to the point of drawing symbols of their power on their skin. Talk about owning your own body, being in your body, claiming yourself. I love it. When the world is in an uproar over whether women should have a choice or not when it comes to their own bodies, being tattooed is one of the most visible choices of all.
- Margaret Cho
Collection: Drawing
Image of Susan Mitchell
It's possible to keep drawing this moment out, any moment, hammering it thinner and thinner like beaten gold, like iced chablis, whipping it, whipping it to cheap perfume, each word blown to aneurysm.
- Susan Mitchell
Collection: Drawing
Image of Toni Onley
Do not draw before you paint, it will restrict your brush.
- Toni Onley
Collection: Drawing
Image of John Howe
Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation.
- John Howe
Collection: Drawing
Image of John Howe
Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.
- John Howe
Collection: Drawing
Image of John Howe
What can make your work interesting is as much who you are, as how you draw.
- John Howe
Collection: Drawing
Image of Frederick Franck
It is in order to really see, to see ever deeper, ever more intensely, hence to be fully aware and alive, that I draw what the Chinese call 'The Ten Thousand Things' around me. Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.
- Frederick Franck
Collection: Drawing
Image of Frederick Franck
Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world.
- Frederick Franck
Collection: Drawing
Image of Frederick Franck
I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen
- Frederick Franck
Collection: Drawing
Image of Frederick Franck
While drawing grasses I learn nothing 'about' grass, but wake up to the wonder that there is grass at all.
- Frederick Franck
Collection: Drawing
Image of Jerry Fodor
Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads.
- Jerry Fodor
Collection: Drawing
Image of John French Sloan
A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues.
- John French Sloan
Collection: Drawing
Image of Dave McKean
Sometimes the things I learn making paintings or drawings - composition, colour, expressionism, texture - can directly influence the making of a film. Sometimes it's great that they are different, and simply taking a break from one medium to spend time with another, recharges the batteries and I feel refreshed.
- Dave McKean
Collection: Drawing
Image of William A. Dembski
If we take seriously the word-flesh Christology of Chalcedon (i.e., the doctrine that Christ is fully human and fully divine) and view Christ as the telos toward which God is drawing the whole of creation, then any view of the sciences that leaves Christ out of the picture must be seen as fundamentally deficient.
- William A. Dembski
Collection: Drawing
Image of Jim Denevan
When I'm doing a drawing, I'm personifying the place that is empty. A place that is unmarked.
- Jim Denevan
Collection: Drawing
Image of Carolee Schneemann
Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember.
- Carolee Schneemann
Collection: Drawing