D Quotes
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“Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.”
“Drawing Is An Escape From All The Unecessary Things In Life That Get In The Way Of Being Free”
“Drawing is an idea more than fact.”
Source: In search of form
“Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Drawing is deception.”
“Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.”
“Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.”
“Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it into your subconscious, which is graceful. But that takes time.”
“Drawing is like the first kiss. It carries within it the deepest emotion and the challenge of the first step. It is the first cry after birth”
“Drawing is more fun to me than writing. I think it's interesting to talk to different cartoonists about how those activities work for them. I'm a very writerly cartoonist. I certainly spend more time on the writing than I do on the drawing, even though the drawing, of course, is very time-consuming.”
“Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.”
Source: Degas: The Uncontested Master
“Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.”
“Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.”
“Drawing is only what people see, not what the artist means, to my mind I’m one of my drawings I show them around to people and they see something else than what I really made.”
“Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.”
“Drawing is something I do on the side, I like to see it be of use at times.”
“Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.”
Source: Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Drawing is still the bottom line.”
Source: The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn
“Drawing is the art of being able to leave an accurate record of
the experience of what one isn't, of what one doesn't know. A
great drawer is either confirming beautifully what is commonplace
or probing authoritatively the unknown.
::: Brett Whiteley :::”
“Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk.”
“Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.”
“Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.”
Source: Arshile Gorky: three decades of drawings
“Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.”
“Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world.”
“Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.”
“Drawing is the honesty of art.”
“Drawing is the honesty of the art.”
“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.”
“Drawing is the most direct and personal kind of graphic expression. Unlike painting, it doesn't forgive. You put down your black line, and there it is - as inevitable as death.”
“Drawing is the most inalienable medium. It is private; it practically doesn't have an audience in mind, just the artist's expression.”
“Drawing is the necessary beginning of everything [in Art], and not having it, one has nothing.”
“Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.”
Source: The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo
“Drawing is the probity of art. To draw does not mean simply to reproduce contours; drawing does not consist merely of line: drawing is also expression, the inner form, the plane, the modeling. See what remains after that.”
“Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience.”
“Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.”
“Drawing is the root of everything.”
Source: Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings
“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.”
Source: Betty Goodwin: oeuvres de 1971 à 1987
“Drawing is the skeleton of what you do and color is its flesh.”
“Drawing is the sum of directions.”
“Drawing is the true test of art.”
“Drawing is what you see of the world, truly see...And sometimes what you see is so deep in your head you're not even sure of what you're seeing. But when it's down there on paper, and you look at it, really look, you'll see the way things are...that's the world, isn't it? You have to keep looking to find the truth.”
“Drawing is your understanding of form.”
“Drawing Lavi’s smile eases me precisely because he has such a sad fate.”
“Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you to see what you're looking at more clearly. Did you know that?"
I said nothing.
"What colour's a blackbird?" she said.
"Black"
"Typical!”
Source: Skellig
“Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.”
“Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.”
“Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.”
“Drawing never dies, it holds on by the skin of its teeth, because the hunger it satisfies – the desire for an active, investigative, manually vivid relation with the things we see and yearn to know about – is apparently immortal.”