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“When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.”

Painting Drawing Realising Painting And Drawing

Author:David Hockney

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

Mind Moving Race Drawing Chess Sketching Playing Chess

Author:David Hockney

“Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.”

Stills Eye Drawing Ache

Author:David Hockney

“The uncertain and imprecise way of constructing a drawing is sometimes a model of how to construct meaning... The ethical and moral questions...in our heads seem to rise to the surface as a consequence of the process”

Way Sometimes Seems Process Moral Models Consequence Surface Drawing Ethical Uncertain Constructs

Author:William Kentridge

“I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.”

Havens Painting Drawing Mediums

Author:David Hockney

“I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.”

Ifs Mean Activity Draws Drawing

Author:David Hockney

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

Loss Pay Wonderful Drawing Mediums Ipads

Author:David Hockney

“But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near.”

May Seems Wind Woods East Drawing Setting Settings Withering

Book:The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings

Source: The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings

“Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?”

Drawing Telephones

Author:David Hockney

“I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.”

People Years Looks Said Hard Teaching Years Ago Drawing

Author:David Hockney

“I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.”

I Can Done Missing Weight Cameras Photograph Drawing Volume Flatness

Author:David Hockney

“Happiness requires changing yourself and changing your world. It requires pursuing your own goals and fitting in with others. Different people at different times in their lives will benefit from drawing more heavily on one approach or the other.”

People World Different Goal Benefits Approach Drawing Different Peoples Fitting Different Times Change Yourself

Book:The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

“When you play guitar you are drawing a frame around a moment and saying to the listener, 'Here is how I want you to experience this. How you begin and end a solo is framing, How you structure a song is framing, how you present yourself onstage is framing. See every corner, not just the center, framing should heighten the impact of the art and give clarity to your vision.”

Want Giving Should Art Ends Play Moments Song Vision Impact Structure Guitar Corners Drawing Clarity I Want You Listeners Solo Framing

Author:Philip Toshio Sudo

“I believe in spiritualism. It's like, when you listen to music or something and then you're sort of primed. If you're an artist, you're sort of primed and inspired, and you start drawing, you sort of have the spirit of what you're listening to, still in you. You just have sort of an inspiration.”

Ifs Believe Stills Inspiration Spirit Artist I Believe Listening Inspired I Believe In Drawing Listening To Music Spiritualism

Author:Daniel Johnston

“When I was writing songs, I always thought I'd make more of a career out of the drawings, the comics even more than the music.”

Writing Song Careers Drawing Writing Songs

Author:Daniel Johnston

“Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit of burnt wood was also good because I was drawing burnt wood with a piece of wood. I wanted to do black and white. After using color, I thought black and white would be good. You can have color in black and white. There is color in them, actually.”

Doe Ideas Would Be Wanted Felt Bits Black White Pieces Color Draws Woods Be Good Drawing Landscape Black And White New Ideas

Author:David Hockney

“Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.”

Knows Years Persons Film Young Actors Painting Years Ago Disappear Drawing Fifty Grants Movie Actors Painting And Drawing

Author:David Hockney

“Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.”

Years Has Beens Painting Drawing Painting And Drawing

Author:David Hockney

“On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, "Well, I don't have to talk much."”

Years Wells Said Felt Talking Months Speech Draws Doctors Sentences Drawing Tiny Strokes October Concentrating Talking Much

Author:David Hockney

“You don't expect everyone out there watching to believe that this cartoon is real, that this drawing has really come to life. But on some level, you do. You try to cast a spell. You want the world to feel real. It's a nerdy pursuit.”

World Want Feels Trying Believe Real Levels Casts Drawing Pursuit Spells Cartoon Nerdy

Author:Loren Bouchard

“This is the problem with the way you educate your children. You don't want your young ones drawing their own conclusions. You want them to come to the same conclusions that you came to. Thus you doom them to repeat the mistakes to which your own conclusions led you.”

Way Want Children Problem Young Mistake Our Children Drawing Conclusion Your Children Repeats Educate Doom Young Ones

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Anything that makes you feel good is always going to be drawing in more.”

Feels Drawing Feel Good Make You Feel Good

Author:John Gray

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

Decision Rivers Complexes Drawing Premises

Author:Herbert Simon

“I'd like to study the drawings of kids. That's where the truth is, without a doubt.”

Kids Study Doubt Truth Is Drawing

Author:Andre Derain

“Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.”

Body Spiritual Prayer Breaths Drawing Spiritual Life Pulse

Book:Parochial and Plain Sermons

Source: Parochial and Plain Sermons

“The work, I suppose, is made in the editing, whereby I make literally hundreds of drawings, and then a much smaller percentage of those become the finished work.”

Made Finished Drawing Editing Percentages Finished Work

Author:David Shrigley

“Almost every cartoonist, when he's sitting down to draw a funny face, if you watch him closely, his mouth is gonna curl to the expression that he's drawing. But when I would write a story - I know it's going to sound almost ridiculous and infantile - I would, in a way, start living it.”

Ifs Knows Way Writing Stories Faces Sound Watches Expression Draws Mouths Sitting Drawing Ridiculous Sitting Down Curls Cartoonist Infantile Funny Face

Author:Al Jaffee

“I started drawing at a very young age. Writing a story wasn't satisfying, but to actually draw our own world - it's like controlling your own dreams.”

World Writing Stories Dream Age Young Draws Drawing Satisfying Young Age

Author:Daniel Clowes

“Music isn't just for professionals. We delegate all of our music and our dancing and our art to professionals. It's silly. We should be doing our own dancing and drawing.”

Should Art Music Is Dancing Drawing Silly Delegates

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.”

Thinking Form Fiction Drawing Storytelling Narrative Caves

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“I'm English and I'm used to coming from a world of period dramas, where there's a very polite restraint to everything. Everybody's sort of sitting in drawing rooms.”

World Used Rooms Periods Drama Sitting Drawing Restraint Polite

Author:Clive Owen

“Growing up working with my dad, I really had no interest in doing the actual work, so I was always like drawing on the wood, doing stuff like that. It just has a real hands-on approach.”

Real Hands Stuff Interest Growing Up Growing Dad Approach My Dad Woods Drawing

Author:Eddie Martinez

“For decades I'd flit from drawing table to typewriter to guitar with no sense of strain or contradiction. They all exercised the same psychic muscle (the Imagination), and working in one medium refreshed my appetite for the others.”

Imagination Tables Guitar Decades Drawing Mediums Muscles Contradiction Appetite Psychics Strain Typewriters

Author:Peter Blegvad

“I'm not a visionary, but I've spent half my life drawing things Imagined, Remembered, and Observed, comparing the differences between them, and my study confirms that "the difference between night and day / is not as great as people say."”

People Night Differences Half Study Drawing Compare Remembered Visionaries

Author:Peter Blegvad

“I'd done a drawing of the model using only peripheral vision, looking at a spot on the wall to the right of where she sat. It wasn't really a drawing of her I produced; it was a drawing of the cloud of lights and darks she dissolved into when I focused on the spot. You could look at my drawing of this cloud and read it as a nude female figure, though a little translation was required.”

Looks Littles Done Light Vision Figures Wall Models Female Clouds Focused Drawing Spots Sat Translations Peripheral Vision

Author:Peter Blegvad

“I don't draw every day. I tend to draw intensely during certain periods of time. I draw to amuse myself on occasion, when I am bored and drawing is the only fun to be had.”

Certain Fun Periods Draws Drawing Occasions Bored

Author:David Shrigley

“I like making books but I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing. Perhaps I just try to arrange a bunch of seemingly random drawings into something that makes a vague narrative sense. Sometimes it sort of makes sense, sometimes it doesn't.”

Trying Book Sometimes Drawing Bunch Narrative Make Sense Not Sure Vague

Author:David Shrigley

“One of the best memories of my life is contemplating that first finished drawing and realizing I had cracked the code, that I could make drawings like this whenever I wanted.”

Firsts Wanted Life Is Realizing Memories Finished Drawing Code Contemplating Cracked Best Memories

Author:Jim Woodring

“I have a personal definition of cartooning, which is, simply, "imaginative drawing." Anything you're drawing that is not in front of you but is a mental construct that you want to express in a drawing is, to me, a cartoon.”

Want Fronts Definitions Drawing Cartoon Constructs Imaginative

Author:Jim Woodring

“To my way of thinking, the concept drawings that Rembrandt did, the drawings he made that he used to model his artists, to work out the compositions of his paintings: those are cartoons. Look at his sketch for the return of the prodigal son. The expression on the angry younger brother's face. The head is down; the eyebrow is just one curved line over the eyes. It communicates in a very shorthand way. It's beautiful, expressive, and, in a peculiar way, it's more powerful than the kind of stilted, formalized expression in the final painting.”

“I don't believe in art like I used to. I believe in something beyond it, something that contains art and everything else. But I just don't quite have the nerve to chuck drawing and painting. Part of it is that I enjoy it too much, and part is that I don't have the courage to renounce the world. I don't want to move out of this nice neighborhood so that I can live in a shed and devote myself to meditating and touching something I can't feel. I'm addicted to the fun of playing in the world.”

“My drawing came out of editorial-style cartoons. Music was one thing and art was another, and there weren't really any standards for my art. My work was just drawings. They weren't done with any aspirations of becoming a part of punk scene. They weren't about punk. They were just collections of drawings, some of which I xeroxed and sold.”

Art Done One Thing Style Becoming Scene Standards Drawing Aspiration Collections Punk Cartoon Editorials

Author:Raymond Pettibon

“It was never my goal to capitalize on punk. I could never make it as a commercial artist. I didn't back then and I still don't have the temperament and don't care for drawing or painting or making art for any other purposes other my own.”

Art Stills Care Purpose Artist Goal My Own Painting Don't Care Drawing Punk Temperament

Author:Raymond Pettibon

“I wouldn't want to be defined so much by comics or cartoons. My work is more narrative than that. If you take your basic cartoon, there's always a punchline or a joke at the end. My drawings don't depend on that so much.”

Ifs Want Ends Depends Jokes Drawing Defined Narrative Cartoon Punchlines

Author:Raymond Pettibon

“I was very influenced by comics. The drawing style, definitely, I was interested in. My style of drawing is largely a comic style, but it's also much more obvious than comics.”

Style Obvious Drawing Comic

Author:Raymond Pettibon

“I really don't see any influence of my work on any artists. But I do think I've had an influence on drawings' being shown. I've had an influence on the economics of it.”

Thinking Artist Influence Economics Drawing

Author:Raymond Pettibon

“There are instances where lines in my work are borrowed or stolen from sources, mainly from books, or they become my own versions. A lot of the writing is my own, too. But if someone were to take each drawing and trace it back to its source, most of them could be traced back to a book or a text.”

Ifs Writing Book Lines My Own Source Drawing Versions Instance Stolen Borrowed

Author:Raymond Pettibon

“There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that it will eventually have text.”

Ifs Writing I Can Assuming Drawing Latent

Author:Raymond Pettibon

“Sometimes a collage element I hit upon can inspire the entire drawing.”

Sometimes Inspire Elements Drawing Collages

Author:Laura Owens

“Creating festivals made a major impact on society in general because you couldn't draw large crowds indoors. At Newport we were soon drawing crowds of 10,000 and there weren't halls that could hold that many people.”

People Made Creating Majors Draws Impact Crowds Drawing Halls Festivals Large Crowds Impact On Society

Author:George Wein

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