Top Drawing Quotes Collection - Page 2

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Image of Robert Crumb
Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp.
- Robert Crumb
Collection: Drawing
Image of Igor Babailov
Even when you paint, you never stop drawing.
- Igor Babailov
Collection: Drawing
Image of Brian Blessed
I threw [Picasso's] drawing on the floor and in doing so, threw away about £50m.
- Brian Blessed
Collection: Drawing
Image of Lucy Fry
I remember preparing for my audition on the plane to L.A. — I was drawing all these weird vampire pictures and I am sure the gorgeous ladynext to me thought I was very odd.
- Lucy Fry
Collection: Drawing
Image of Tom of Finland
If I don't have an erection when I'm doing a drawing, I know it's no good.
- Tom of Finland
Collection: Drawing
Image of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
The architect must not only understand drawing, but music.
- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Collection: Drawing
Image of Peter Arno
Well, back to the drawing board.
- Peter Arno
Collection: Drawing
Image of Andre Bazin
A very faithful drawing may actually tell us more about the model but despite the promptings of our critical intelligence it will never have the irrational power of the photograph to bear away our faith.
- Andre Bazin
Collection: Drawing
Image of Alan Lee
To draw a tree, to pay such close attention to every aspect of a tree, is an act of reverence not only toward the tree, and toward the earth itself, but also our human connection to it. This is one of the magical things about drawing - it gives us almost visionary moments of connectedness.
- Alan Lee
Collection: Drawing
Image of Alan Lee
When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged. I love trying to render not just the object, but what it has been through.
- Alan Lee
Collection: Drawing
Image of Ellsworth Kelly
All my work begins with drawings. I don’t labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line. I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to ten minutes.
- Ellsworth Kelly
Collection: Drawing
Image of Carol Ann Duffy
You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue.
- Carol Ann Duffy
Collection: Drawing
Image of Adrian McKinty
Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists.
- Adrian McKinty
Collection: Drawing
Image of Marilyn
The least I can give them is the best they can get from me. What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?
- Marilyn
Collection: Drawing
Image of Jean Giraud
The comics were not only stories to enjoy for me they were drawings that possessed me.
- Jean Giraud
Collection: Drawing
Image of Trina Robbins
I am proud of having drawn the first comic about a lesbian - and it didn't even occur to me that I was drawing a first. I just wanted to tell the story of my roommate.
- Trina Robbins
Collection: Drawing
Image of Trina Robbins
Today, although as a whole, the industry is still male-dominated, more women are drawing comics than ever before, and there are more venues for them to see their work in print. In the 1950s, when the comic industry hit an all-time low, there was no place for women to go. Today, because of graphic novels, there's no place for aspiring women cartoonists to go but forward.
- Trina Robbins
Collection: Drawing
Image of Patricia Reilly Giff
Drawing is what you see of the world, truly see...And sometimes what you see is so deep in your head you're not even sure of what you're seeing. But when it's down there on paper, and you look at it, really look, you'll see the way things are...that's the world, isn't it? You have to keep looking to find the truth.
- Patricia Reilly Giff
Collection: Drawing
Image of Kimon Nicolaides
All that you need in the way of technique for drawing is bound up in the technique of seeing - that is, of understanding, which after all is mainly dependent on feeling. If you attempt to see in the way prescribed by any mechanical system of drawing, old or new, you will lose the understanding of the fundamental impulse. Your drawing becomes a meaningless diagram and the time so spent is wasted.
- Kimon Nicolaides
Collection: Drawing
Image of Kimon Nicolaides
There is only one right way to draw... physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses.
- Kimon Nicolaides
Collection: Drawing
Image of Glen Keane
For me, drawing is the greatest joy. Animation is never as good as when I'm sitting at that desk drawing. Even when it's up on the screen, it's never as wonderful as those moments when it's drawn, to me.
- Glen Keane
Collection: Drawing
Image of Eduardo Souto de Moura
Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper.
- Eduardo Souto de Moura
Collection: Drawing
Image of Francesco Clemente
When I look at a drawing of a person, I look at that person as living.
- Francesco Clemente
Collection: Drawing
Image of Patricia Piccinini
I usually have several things on the go. Whether it is my own drawings for the next work that I am working on while a sculpture is being fabricated or several works at different points in production.
- Patricia Piccinini
Collection: Drawing
Image of Theodore Robinson
My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.
- Theodore Robinson
Collection: Drawing
Image of Ollie Johnston
You’re not supposed to animate drawings. You’re supposed to animate feelings.
- Ollie Johnston
Collection: Drawing
Image of Ollie Johnston
Don't animate drawings, animate feelings.
- Ollie Johnston
Collection: Drawing
Image of Eusebius
Let us ban together to invent all the miracles and resurrection appearances which we never saw and le us carry the sham even to death! Why not die for nothing? Why dislike torture and whipping inflicted for no good reason? Let us go out to all nations and overthrow their institutions and denounce their gods! And even if we don't convince anybody, at least we'll have the satisfaction of drawing down on ourselves the punishment for out own deceit.
- Eusebius
Collection: Drawing
Image of Francesca Woodman
Now we come to the passage. You can just see a little peep of the passage in Looking-glass House, if you leave the door of our drawing room wide open: and it's very like our passage as far as you can see, only you know it may be quite different on beyond.
- Francesca Woodman
Collection: Drawing
Image of Marie Dressler
My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards.
- Marie Dressler
Collection: Drawing
Image of Carroll Smith
Planning, evaluation, reasoning and establishing prioritites are all more important than brilliance - either behind the wheel or at the drawing board.
- Carroll Smith
Collection: Drawing
Image of Jacob Collins
I love painting still lifes because there's a feeling of musical, flowing experience. The drawing doesn't matter as much - what you're really after is a feeling of clarity and beauty.
- Jacob Collins
Collection: Drawing
Image of Alex Katz
Picasso and Matisse were the guys I wanted to get away from, and cubism is all still lifes. Their paintings are all closed drawings. And still life is a perfect form for that. By the mid-'50s, I sort of dropped the still life. The large picture was a way of getting around them, too. The abstract expressionists were also into the large form because it was a way of getting around Matisse and Picasso. Picasso can't paint big paintings. Matisse didn't bother after a certain point.
- Alex Katz
Collection: Drawing
Image of Edward Gorey
If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.
- Edward Gorey
Collection: Drawing
Image of Raymond Pettibon
I was very influenced by comics. The drawing style, definitely, I was interested in. My style of drawing is largely a comic style, but it's also much more obvious than comics.
- Raymond Pettibon
Collection: Drawing
Image of Raymond Pettibon
It's inevitable that everyone's first drawing they draw is much like their fingerprint. It's inescapable that one has an identifiable style. It's not a major issue with me, but I never wanted to have a distinctive signature style so much.
- Raymond Pettibon
Collection: Drawing
Image of Raymond Pettibon
I wouldn't want to be defined so much by comics or cartoons. My work is more narrative than that. If you take your basic cartoon, there's always a punchline or a joke at the end. My drawings don't depend on that so much.
- Raymond Pettibon
Collection: Drawing
Image of Anthony Browne
The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background.
- Anthony Browne
Collection: Drawing
Image of Wallace Tripp
The first ten thousand drawings are the hardest. Put another way, you have ten thousand bad drawings within and should expel them as quickly as possible.
- Wallace Tripp
Collection: Drawing
Image of Marlene Dumas
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 they'll last forever.
- Marlene Dumas
Collection: Drawing
Image of Joaquin Sorolla
The older I become, the more I realize that drawing is the most important of all the problems of picture-making.
- Joaquin Sorolla
Collection: Drawing
Image of Linda K. Burton
You have something to give and are willing to give it. You do this without fanfare or publicity, drawing attention to the God we worship, not yourselves, and with no thought of what you will receive.That’s what disciples do!.
- Linda K. Burton
Collection: Drawing
Image of Brice Marden
Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought for a while that it was going to be the major movement. But people always drift back to realism. I guess there is a certain security in that.
- Brice Marden
Collection: Drawing
Image of Jens Lekman
When I was between seven and 13, I hated music. I wasn't interested in music at all. I'd tried to listen to it just because all my friends were getting into pop music and everything, and I remember I just wasn't interested at all. I liked drawing and science.
- Jens Lekman
Collection: Drawing
Image of Charb
A drawing has never killed anyone.
- Charb
Collection: Drawing
Image of David Altmejd
Some sculptors make drawings, I make heads.
- David Altmejd
Collection: Drawing
Image of William Kentridge
The uncertain and imprecise way of constructing a drawing is sometimes a model of how to construct meaning... The ethical and moral questions...in our heads seem to rise to the surface as a consequence of the process
- William Kentridge
Collection: Drawing
Image of David Finch
I'm just finding that when I'm sitting down and drawing the pages, it always takes me in a different direction than what I had in mind in my head.
- David Finch
Collection: Drawing
Image of Maddie Ziegler
I'm very artistic - I feel like ever since I was born I've been drawing. I actually have a picture in my room that I painted, and people are always like "Where did you buy that?" It's cool that people are impressed by it.
- Maddie Ziegler
Collection: Drawing