Top 1200 Drawing The Line Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I can't actually explain why my lines got shorter, but they did. Just as I can't explain why my early poems were 'all image' and my current ones are relatively abstract. The sense of the line changed with the theme, somehow my ear (or brain or heart/mind) fell in love with a short line and very very simple words.

I have a theory that I did most of my observing probably before I was twenty, stored it, and am still drawing on it.

What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.

But with period clothes, people know less so they accept the pretty drawing that I give them.

After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.

If I hadn't had the outlet of writing and drawing comics, I guess there's a good chance I wouldn't be around today.

Prayer, as a means of drawing ever new strength from Christ, is concretely and urgently needed.

It became clear to me that I had to push it toward a more representational way of drawing.

I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.

And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.

I have a basic theorem as to how I do my jokes. Growing up, I knew when to cross the line and when not to cross the line. It's the same with my comedy. I know what my audience will take and how much they won't take. I can't give you a formula for it. It's my own personal formula inside my head. Somebody else's might be different.

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

I would love to say that the world is changing in the movie industry for people of color, women, the LGBTQ community and other minorities since I began my career, and that we are evolving as a species, but I think that given this social and political climate, I'm at a loss. It's like running a marathon and thinking you're halfway done and you can see the finish line - but the finish line is actually the first checkpoint.

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

I don't really picture anyone when I'm drawing. They just become their own completed person with googly eyes.

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

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.

Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.

music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.

Try drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination.

She was a large, disordered woman, like a child's drawing that didn't stay within the lines.

None of us knew what this power plant looked like. We had no schematic drawing.

Few people know that I am also an artist; I truly enjoy sketching and drawing.

If you're drawing humans, it can be detrimental to be too naturalistic, which is like animating little corpses.

A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement.

Well, I love tattoos and have been drawing them on my binders in school since I was little.

As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much.

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

The goal is glorifying God by drawing circles around the promises, miracles, and dreams He wants for you.

If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it.

There are no coal plants on the drawing board for Duke, which leaves us with gas, renewables, and nuclear.

On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published.

My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people.

Drawing is the simplest way of establishing a picture vocabulary because it is an instant, personal declaration of what is important and what is not.

My fear is we're not teaching competition. We're shielding people from it. For the longest time children, you know, nobody's allowed to win anything, participation trophies. But when you get to real life and if you really want to amount to something, when you get whatever line of work you're in, as you get to the top of that line of work, there are very few people there.

If you're impatient while waiting for the bus, tell yourself you're doing 'Bus waiting meditation.' If you're standing in a slow line at the drugstore, you're doing 'Waiting in line meditation.' Just saying these words makes me feel very spiritual and high-minded and wise.

When remaining in awareness itself, every thought movement, no matter what kind, is like a drawing in air.

Maybe time is nothing at all like a straight line. Perhaps it's shaped like a twisted doughnut. But for tens of thousands of years, people have probably been seeing time as a straight line that continues on forever. And that's the concept they based their actions on. And until now they haven't found anything inconvenient or contradictory about it. So as an experiential model, it's probably correct.

Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

When I sample something, it's just me drawing from what I'm actually into. It's whatever sounds like a good track.

Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.

I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

I love drawing. It's a passion of mine, and I'm a creative person. I always have my sketch book with me.

The Secret of Drawing consists of just two things: 1) Making lines on paper; and 2) Choosing where they go.

There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.

I can't be happy with drawing or losing a match. It actually makes me really sad when that happens.

By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother & an instructor.

Right now it seems like the girls are drawing more attention to country music.

Lumped in as a hobby, I don't really like drawing pictures all that much, but thinking of it as work, it's the greatest.

Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.

I spent a lot of time being creative as a child - painting, drawing and writing poetry.

My family was poor. My father was in the police force and was drawing a small salary. Because of that I could not study.