Top 1200 Drawing The Line Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

My drawing began as a way to count my blessings. To study, capture, catalog the things that, despite it all, make my life rich.

I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail's pace, rewriting as I go and paring the excess away. This is against all the best advice for writing long form prose, and I have tried over the years to break myself of the habit, but I can't bear to leave anything ungainly on the page and half the fun for me is that tinkering. So the length of a novel was a daunting prospect.

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.

I stared at the creased map on my wall, the thin green line connecting all the places I had read about. There they were, all the cities of my imaginary future, held together with tape and marker and pins. In six months, a lot had changed. There was no thin green line that could lead me to my future anymore. Just a girl.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

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

Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures.

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

In my work I've never done preliminary drawing, because it's sometimes difficult to repeat something or to continue when the urgency's gone.

Yeah, I mean I am somebody that makes an effort to go and see a lot of exhibitions, painting, drawing, sculpture.

Drawing the desperate and the adrift, Los Angeles has long been the dumping ground of dreams both real and cinematic.

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

Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.

I live a very nice life. I have a wonderful time. But it's not lived drawing on a full level. I'm relaxed, cool, and enjoying it.

I want to show how much fun you can have drawing... parents and children can draw together as a wonderful shared activity.

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

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are, and your brain is drawing on things that you've experienced.

The thing to do is just make sure that as part of a disability community, we're not isolating ourselves by drawing differences for the sake of progress.

I was aware that my nomination was drawing a lot of attention, particularly in the Latino world, not just in Puerto Rico. It was touching.

Remind me," he paused, drawing in a stuttered gasp, "to never piss you off again. Christ, are you secretly a ninja?

The American servicemen and women of the Guard and Reserve leave their jobs, their spouses and their children to wear the uniform that defends our country. This selfless commitment should be honored by businesses across Massachusetts as we work to ensure they are treated fairly while they balance their employment responsibilities and obligations to the armed services. No business should ever put the bottom line ahead of America's front line.

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

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

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

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

I love drawing Ryan Reynolds in his Deadpool costume. He looks amazing and is the true embodiment of the Merc with a Mouth!

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.

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.

My history has been one of ups and downs. But thanks to God, I keep working, drawing from my life experiences songs that I can sing.

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

How to become a media star: Be a Republican who bucks the party line. How to be ignored by media: Be a Democrat who bucks party line.

I think making a movie is like drawing or creating an art piece. The artwork reflects part of your personality, but not all.

The first line (of I Am The Walrus) was written on one acid trip one weekend. The second line was written on the next acid trip the next weekend, and it was filled in after I met Yoko.

In live action, you go scene by scene, but in voice over you go line by line. In voice over you do a lot more takes.

Drawing was a cheap way for me to express myself. It gave a focus to my thinking and my life from a very early age.

I did cartoons for four high school publications and then and there decided I wanted to spend my life at the drawing board.

I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid.

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

This was weird. The thing that could have driven two friends instantly apart was actually drawing them closer together.

Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness.

When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it all.

Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?

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

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

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

For many of us, conversion is an ongoing process and not a onetime event that results from a powerful or dramatic experience. Line upon line and precept upon precept, gradually and almost imperceptibly, our motives, our thoughts, our words, and our deeds become aligned with the will of God. Conversion unto the Lord requires both persistence and patience.

Even if it flops, when you're sitting at the drawing table, you dream about seeing your work on the big screen, no matter what.

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

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

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?

Any cartoon that can be liked by a committee is really not worth drawing; in fact, must not be drawn at all! Better to become a stockbroker.

Leaders need to remember that the point of leading is not to cross the finish line first. It's to take people across the finish line with you. For that reason, leaders must deliberately slow their pace, stay connected to their people, enlist others to help fulfill the vision, and keep people going. You can't do that if you're running too far ahead of your people.

The Donald Trump phone call with the president of Taiwan seems very much in line with his rhetoric during the campaign that he intended to be tough on China. And don't forget, we have seen a lot of presidential candidates, memorably, Bill Clinton, who used to criticize George Herbert Walker Bush for coddling dictators and then take the much softer line with China once he's in office.

Both of my parents were cartoonists - they met in art school - so I was always drawing and I was the best artist in my class and all that stuff.

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

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

People are familiar with my songs, especially through Eric Clapton. But I have a hard time drawing a crowd, because I have been a songwriter.

The Cardiff Half Marathon has already proved itself to be one of the biggest and best road races in the U.K., and when the best athletes in the world run on the same course, the times should be spectacular. But the real beauty of this event is that ordinary runners get the chance to line up on the same start line as the best athletes in the world.

If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as you photograph.