Top 1200 Drawing Attention Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Every morning, I make myself a cappuccino with a drawing in the foam. I post them to Instagram with the hashtag #christiecappuccino.

There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.

We don't pay a whole lot of attention to the Internet until people have played the game - then we pay a lot of attention to whether people liked it. We read through it and see it, but we don't take it into consideration. ... [The Internet] is not going to dictate the direction of where the game goes.

Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.

The tattoo can only exist as part of the skin, as a drawing always is an incision in the material and therefore cannot be parted from it.

There's only one thing worse than not paying attention to girls in gangs - it's paying attention to girls in gangs. The public reaction to girls and women who engage in nontraditional behavior - the hysteria that often surrounds girls in these groups - is almost as interesting as the behavior itself.

Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.

This is to show the world that I can paint like Titian. [A big drawing of a rectangle] Only technical details are missing.

I find that a really restful, relaxing way to spend time on a plane is to listen to an audiobook while drawing.

Disney is very much a child's theater - it's a very specific kind of acting. It's loud and boisterous with the goal to draw the attention of children and keep the attention of children, and it can kind of be cheesy and loud, and I had to unpack a lot of that, because as an actor, you kind of internalize, and you basically become a character.

If I could make a career out of drawing little girls hiding in corners, I would do really well.

You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

Back in my high school years, the Hulk was my favorite Marvel character, and I always enjoy drawing him.

Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing.

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted.

I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don't pay attention to what's going on outside of jail, because it's all beyond my control.

I don't have ADD, but I only like to pay attention to the things I like to pay attention to, and things like getting a TV and getting the cable working are beyond me, and so I let such things lapse, sometimes for years. This applies to keeping my apartment clean.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work is dissipated. We create ourselves by how we use this energy. Memories, thoughts and feelings are all shaped by how use it. And it is an energy under control, to do with as we please; hence attention is our most important tool in the task of improving the quality of experience.

When you pay attention to the Quran, you discover that it can only be from Allah. It becomes clearer and clearer to you that it cannot be from a human being. But many people don't perceive the Quran this way because Allah doesn't open its doors to people who do not pay attention.

Distractions can take us in an exciting direction but most often borrow our attention briefly without much resistance and take their sweet time giving it back. Distractions lure us in with an easy escape and then trick us by stealing our attention.

The fact that I didn't finish school left me with a lifelong need to prove that I'm smart, prove it to myself, maybe to the world. I [also] needed to be - not the center of attention - but I needed to be able to attract attention when I wanted it, through my stunts and my fooling around physically with faces or postures or voices I would do. Those things are important elements in the drive behind all of this [my career].

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.

Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.

In 1912, when I was working in The Hague, I first saw a drawing by Louis Sullivan of one of his buildings. It interested me.

You booked him, and you didn't worry about crowds. For drawing power in the South, it was Roy Acuff, then God.

That’s what painting does; it organizes vision in a certain way or suggests that certain things be paid attention to and certain other things not be paid attention to. It functions in that way to a certain extent in our civilization.

Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.

The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.

I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since.

As a child, I was obsessed with drawing things, like Mickey and Donald. And houses. My mother was worried I'd become an artist.

Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.

You don't want to bring attention to yourself; you want to bring attention to the team.

I must have been very young, but I have a clear memory of drawing on a cream brick wall... with wax crayons.

I don't want to spend my entire life drawing talking heads. It seems like a waste of everyone's time.

I base everything on my instinctual approach. There's something very satisfying in that creativity, and it's a bit like an infant drawing.

I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.

I think we have tremendous media covering the sport of boxing, even if boxing is a little bit lost in popularity with MMA sports. And I think that with the show 'Lights Out' it's going to get more attention to the sport, and it's going to put more attention to the problems that athletes in general have.

I keep trying to find ways to shift the viewer's attention away from the object they are looking at and toward their own perceptual process in relation to that object. The question for me always is: how can I make you aware of your own activity of looking, instead of losing your attention to thoughts about what it is that you are looking at?

I think as an over-protective parent of my songs: I always feel like none of them get enough attention. There are the ones that get attention on the radio, but that's one thing. You always feel like people are not quite hearing what it is that you think makes a song special, and that takes time, too.

By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.

When I was a barber, me being extreme was how I got popular: you name it, I was drawing it on someone's head.

I just wanted to do something that would get peoples' attention. And not only that, but get my foot in the door and be creative. I wanted to do something that was empowering to women, as well as get peoples' attention.

There are only five things really worth drawing; four of them are pretty girls and the fifth is cats.

Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.

It is not the bee's touching on the flowers that gathers the honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out the sweet.

Sometimes you can't help but pay attention to what is written about you. You are trying not to because it's generally not constructive, it can be very funny, in which case it's fine to pay attention to it if you're going to laugh about it. But if it's going to get you angry then it's a pretty pointless waste of energy, so I try and be selective about what I take an interest in about myself.

Why bother? I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood.

Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.

Long time ago, we used to sit around eating popcorn and drawing up plays.

Whatever you put your attention on in this life, will increase in your life. As you put your attention on angels, they will begin increasingly to make their presence known to you.

Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium.

I was taught to draw very well when I was in school at Boston. And I grew to enjoy drawing so much that I never stopped.

As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.