Top 1200 Painting And Drawing Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

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.

When I was a kid, I never felt that what I was drawing really represented me; it was just something I enjoyed.

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

what did wards matter when you could create your own reality just by drawing it?

Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

The older I become, the more I realize that drawing is the most important of all the problems of picture-making.

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

Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads.

When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.

I really wish Mike and Joe would stop drawing on me while I'm sleeping.

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

What kills music in films is when it's done as performance, drawing attention to the fact that someone's in the background playing it.

We sat there, not talking, for a few minutes. He ate the Moon Pie; only skinny people can scarf down junk food like that. Finally, I said, "Norman?" "Yeah?" "Are you ever going to show me the painting?" "Man," he said. "You are, like, so impatient." "I am not," I said. "I've been waiting forever." "Okay, okay." He stood up and went over to the corner, picking up the painting and bringing it over to rest against the bright pink belly of one of the mannequins. Then, he handed me a bandana. "Tie that on.

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

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

The tongue, the Chinese say, is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood.

One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.

I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it first.

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

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

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

As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design.

It's about being creative and drawing on who you are when you wake up, and expressing yourself through fashion.

Even if you're drawing a cartoon and exaggerating, you want to capture something true about the person.

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

Every writer is going to end up drawing from their own experiences in one way or another.

Pampering my skin with moisturiser is very important, but so is drawing. I like sport, but I have to be really interested in it.

When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.

Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature, drawing no line between what is spiritual and what is not.

A cool tattoo design is any drawing that would also look good saggy.

The biggest lesson I've learned about drawing is that it takes time. Which is really annoying.

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.

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

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

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

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

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

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

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

Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.

When I was a kid, I was always drawing things. I'd get butcher paper or grocery bags and draw on them.

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

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

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.

The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each.

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

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

Drawing is the most inalienable medium. It is private; it practically doesn't have an audience in mind, just the artist's expression.

It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing.

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