Best artist & drawing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists.”

“All the old bogeys of 'dignified subject-matter,' of 'balanced compositions,' of 'correct drawing' were laid to rest. The artist was responsible to no one but his own sensibilities for what he painted and how he painted it.”

Matter Artist Responsibility Subjects Responsible Drawing Balanced Composition Sensibility Subject Matter

Author:Ernst Gombrich

“There's the artist's intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn]. Picasso drawings are like that... the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.”

Artist Equal Drawing Intimacy Vans Truthfulness

Author:John Berger

“We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music.”

Needs Kind Happens Artist Loses Drawing All Kinds

Author:David Hockney

“Dawn is about luminosity and so is the iPhone... The little drawings of the dawn are done while I'm still in bed... If you're in my kind of business you'd be a fool to sleep through that... Artists can't work office hours, can they?”

Ifs Kind Littles Stills Done Light Artist Hours Sleep Fool Bed Office Drawing Dawn Iphone Office Hours

Author:David Hockney

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

People Artist Watches Drawing Sand Mesmerizing

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.”

Way Writing Art Stories Young Artist Literature Drawing Magazines Young Artists Drawing Pictures

Book:O. Henry's stories: Short Stories and Classic Literature

Source: O. Henry's stories: Short Stories and Classic Literature

“Whether it is drawing or painting, skilled Artists usually deliver a faster result without jeopardizing the quality, simply because they don't have to waste their time on fixing mistakes.”

Artist Results Mistake Quality Painting Waste Drawing Faster Fixing

Author:Igor Babailov

“The ability to draw from life determines the artist's skill. This is why live drawing classes have always been at the top of the curriculum for properly structured academic workshops.”

Artist Ability Class Skills Draws Determine Drawing Academic Curriculum Workshops

Author:Igor Babailov

“Be clear in your mind why learning to draw well is important. Drawing enables you to see in that special, epiphanous way that artists see, no matter what style you use to express your special insight. Your goal in drawing should be to encounter the reality of experience... to see ever more clearly, ever more deeply.”

Way Should Mind Wells Important Matter Use Reality Artist Goal Clear Special Style Draws Importance No Matter What Insight Drawing Encounters

Book:The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Source: The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

“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.”

Art Artist Lines Color Drawing Symbols Tone Plastic Graphic Formation Cornerstones Coordination

Author:John French Sloan

“The artist does not see both eyes alike. There is always 'the eye' and the other eye... It adds life and plasticity to the drawing if the eye in the light is darker than the one in the shadow. It gives the head vividness.”

Ifs Giving Doe Light Eye Artist Shadow Add Drawing Portraiture Vividness Plasticity

Author:John French Sloan

“Study the great brush drawings of the Chinese and Japanese... When we try to imitate their conventions for perspective, form and texture we lose the content, because those artists were part of an ancient tradition. Our tradition changes rapidly, our schools of thought come to fruition quickly and decay again. We see differently.”

Trying School Form Artist Loses Study Perspective Tradition Ancient Drawing Chinese Conventions Decay Brushes Texture Fruition

Author:John French Sloan

“The process of drawing is... the process of putting the visual intelligence into action, the very mechanics of visual thought. Unlike painting and sculpture... the artist makes clear to himself and not to the spectator what he is doing. It is a soliloquy before it becomes communication.”

Action Artist Process Clear Painting Communication Drawing Visuals Mechanic Sculpture Spectators

Book:Drawing and Sculpture

Source: Drawing and Sculpture

“The average artist, if he chooses, could render an exact drawing of what he sees. Artistic work not only allows but demands some deviation from form and line. Just how far this may go depends on the viewpoint of each painter.”

Ifs May Form Artist Lines Depends Demand Average Drawing Painter Artistic Realism Viewpoints Deviation

Author:Edgar Alwin Payne

“The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting (remark on printmaking).”

Artist Energy Process Painting Drawing Release Remarks Procedures Printmaking

Author:Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

“And me I'm in my bedroom drawing in my notebook Because my hand thinks I'm an artist But my heart knows I'm a poet It's just words they mean so little to me.”

Thinking Knows Heart Mean Littles Hands Artist Poet My Heart Drawing Bedroom Notebook

Author:Conor Oberst

“Drawing or painting allows the artist to know himself as a whole person.”

Knows Persons Whole Artist Painting Drawing Whole Person

Author:Joseph C Zinker

“In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.”

Artist Goes On Drawing Spite Pencils Discouraging Discouragement Forsaken Sketching Painting And Art Drawing And Painting Painting And Drawing Sharp Pencils Paper And Pencil

Book:Van Gogh: fields

Source: Van Gogh: fields

“Jerry and I always felt that the character was enjoying himself. He was having fun: he wasn't taking himself seriously. It was always a lark for him, as you can see in my early drawings.”

Character Artist Fun Felt Enjoy Drawing Having Fun Jerry Larks

Author:Joe Shuster

“It [lighting the set up] is quite a process. It's like drawing. It's like being an artist. You pencil it in first, and then you ink it. When you're filming, it's like you're penciling it all in. You know where everything is going to go. But, that application of the final ink takes some time.”

Knows Firsts Artist Process Like You Finals Drawing Application Pencils Ink Lighting Being An Artist

Author:Robert Rodriguez

“I'm just working with ideas in my head and with drawings that the artists did. And suddenly to see these things come to life in movies - it's just wonderful.”

Ideas Artist Wonderful Drawing

Author:Stan Lee

“I am biased towards the belief that every painter must be grounded in strong and faultless drawing skills, and until one has not experimented with all styles of painting and has not comprehended their potentialities one's work is not complete. Even an abstract painter must know how to draw as well as a figurative artist. As for me, drawing has never created any problem, since I know how to draw anatomy correctly if I had to, I understand the function of muscle groups and sculpture.”

Ifs Knows Wells Problem Artist Belief Strong Know How Groups Style Painting Skills Draws Function Drawing Painter Abstract Muscles Grounded Sculpture Anatomy Biased

Author:Guity Novin

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