Top 1200 Painting And Drawing Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

What has reasoning to do with painting?

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

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

Latin AP was a struggle. There were a lot of people in class drawing pictures during that, but I took it seriously.

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

I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast

What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

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

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

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

I love painting.

Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The best sort of activity is one that combines mental effort with sensuous delight. That's why I love drawing.

A great painting is a great painting.

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.

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

To be sociable, I puffed on a marijuana cigarette, but I didn't inhale...I just hate the idea of drawing smoke into my lungs.

I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more.

There's so much art out there, and I'm happy to see people who are drawing monsters that are very simple designs.

Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.

I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.

I think when I'm drawing, I'm seeing what's happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in my head.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I hate painting.

Sunlight is painting.

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

My painting technique has not changed that much over time, although perhaps I am painting tighter and with more detail, in spite of a desire to loosen up and paint more expressively. One thing that has changed is my daily routine. I used to paint quite late into the night. It was a time I felt the creative spirits most active. As I have aged, my circadian rhythm has changed. I like to paint early in the day when I can avoid falling into the soul-sucking email world. Early dawn feels very similar to late night.

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

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

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

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

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

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

You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested in the present.

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

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

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

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

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

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.

I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano.

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

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

People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.

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

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

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