Best Drawing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 17

“An industrious farmer occupies a more dignified place in the scale of beings...than a lazy lounger...too proud to work, and drawing out a miserable existence by eating on that surplus of other men's labor.”

Men Existence Proud Eating Labor Drawing Scales Miserable Lazy Farmers Surplus Industrious

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.”

People Knows Giving Writing Wells Littles Bits Authority Little Bit Direct Weight Drawing Indirect

Author:Ian Anderson

“What is drawing? How does one get there? It's working one's way through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do. How can one get through that wall? - since hammering on it doesn't help at all. In my view, one must undermine the wall and grind through it slowly and patiently.”

Way Feels Doe Helping Seems Can Do Views Wall Drawing Invisible Iron Grind

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“The goal is glorifying God by drawing circles around the promises, miracles, and dreams He wants for you.”

Want Dream Goal Promise Miracle Drawing Circles Glorifying God

Author:Mark Batterson

“We struggle against easel painting not because it is an aesthetic form of painting, but because it is not modern, for it does not succeed in bringing out the technical side, it is a redundant, exclusive art, and cannot be of any use to the masses. Hence we are struggling not against painting but against photography carried out as if it were an etching, a drawing, a picture in sepia or watercolor.”

Ifs Doe Art Use Form Sides Struggle Modern Painting Succeed Photography Mass Drawing Aesthetic Exclusive Redundant Watercolors Etching

Author:Alexander Rodchenko

“For many years, I have kept in my office an ink drawing of two smiling figures with their arms around each other: Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha, with the caption: "Jesus and Buddha must be very good friends." They are not the same, but they are friends, not enemies, and they are not indifferent to one another.”

Years Two Jesus Christ Enemy Figures Arms Office Jesus Christ Very Good Drawing Indifferent Good Friend Ink Caption Very Good Friends Gautama Buddha

Author:Tilden Edwards

“My dad and I collaborate on the artwork. He does all of the design and layout. He uses my sketches and drawings or weird things to mix into it or put on the merch.”

Doe Use Design Dad My Dad Drawing Artwork Weird Things Layout

Author:Sherri DuPree

“I think anything that you can use to connect is fine. For some people it's meditation. For some people it's yoga. For some people, it's running. For some people, it's affirmations. For me, it's photographs and drawings, and affirmations, and statues, and crystals. I fill my writing space and I fill my home with symbols of what I think of as higher energy.”

People Thinking Writing Use Home Running Energy Space Meditation Fine Higher Yoga Photograph Drawing Symbols Affirmation Statues Crystals

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Yeah, I mean I am somebody that makes an effort to go and see a lot of exhibitions, painting, drawing, sculpture.”

Mean Effort Painting Yeah Drawing Sculpture Exhibitions

Author:PJ Harvey

“I buy mainly Beatles bootlegs and stuff like that. I'm hoping I can go there today. My dad buys my drawings and he re-sells them for quite a bit more and then he puts the money in my savings. I just draw all the time and he buys and I get a lot money [laughs]. It's great. My dad's my best manager I ever had. If I get richer, I'd like to be able to buy more of the real collectible Beatles things. I just need a little more money to be a higher class collector [laughs].”

Ifs Needs Littles I Can Real Today Able Stuff Bits Class Laughing Dad Higher Draws Sells My Dad Drawing Saving Managers More Money Savings Get Rich Collectors Best Manager Collectibles

Author:Daniel Johnston

“When I'm doing a drawing, I get lots of ideas I use them in my songs, even. I do a lot of drawings because that's where I get most of my spending cash and I just always have to have new records, to get something to satisfy my listening pleasure.”

Ideas Use Song Pleasure Records Listening Spending Drawing Cash

Author:Daniel Johnston

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

Spiritual Lines Drawing Live Simply

Book:Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu

Source: Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu

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

Girl Five Four Cat Drawing Fifth Pretty Girl

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“I'm not a sculptor; I'm a hard-edged model maker. You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from 'Star Wars' - especially parts from 'Star Wars' - I can do this stuff all day long. It's exactly how I made my living for 15 years.”

Giving Years Long Made I Can War Hard Stars Stuff Can Do Models Give Me Drawing Makers Props Sculptors Replicate Cranes I Can Do This Scaffolding

Author:Adam Savage

“I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.”

Writing Years Littles Kids Rooms Drawing Magazines Comic Typing Comic Strips

Author:R. L. Stine

“I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades.”

Wells Kind Littles Stories Home Kids Class Drawing Grades Margins Notebook Making Up

Author:Meg Cabot

“I've always believed that you have to have the skills before you destroy the skills. If you want to be crude, be crude, but don't be crude because you don't know how to do it, because you're not perfect at drawing and pattern-cutting.”

Ifs Knows Want Perfect Know How Cutting Skills Patterns Drawing Always Believe Not Perfect Crude

Author:Louise Wilson

“God in heaven holds each person by a string. When you sin, you cut the string. Then God ties it up again. Making a knot, bringing you a little closer to Him. Again and again your sins cut the string and with each knot God keeps drawing you closer and closer.”

Littles Persons Heaven Sin Cutting Drawing Ties Strings Again And Again Knots

Book:One Minute Wisdom

Source: One Minute Wisdom

“I see caring for somebody as a creative outlet. I like drawing little faces and writing little stories and hiding them in places. I don't think it's that hard to be thoughtful, especially when you do care about the person.”

Thinking Writing Littles Persons Hard Stories Care Faces Creative Caring Drawing Thoughtful Hiding Outlets Creative Outlets

Author:Channing Tatum

“I wasn't writing, I wasn't drawing, and personality-wise, I was just completely arrogant. I'm not trying to be overly apologetic for my behavior - I wasn't evil. The lifestyle I had was one that lent itself to becoming more and more self-involved.”

Writing Trying Self Evil Wise Personality Becoming Involved Behavior Drawing Lifestyle Arrogant Becoming More Apologetic

Author:Patti Smith

“It wasn't that I wanted to be an artist. But when I took my first drawing class with the painter Doug Ohlson, I could never finish a drawing.”

Firsts Wanted Artist Class Drawing Painter

Author:Lynne Tillman

“I did large drawings of couples having sex! Men and woman enjoying intercourse and oral sex in a Madison Avenue Gallery? That was the first time I broke a barrier that made me think, some idiot is going to blow my brains out for sure.”

Thinking Men Firsts Made Sex Enjoy Brain Couple First Time Blow Drawing Broke Idiot Barriers Avenues Gallery Intercourse X Men Having Sex Madison Madison Avenue

Author:Betty Dodson

“When I found out after that first successful exhibition that the gallery wanted me to do another show like the first one, I come out two years later with four 6-foot drawings of classical nudes masturbating. The gallery director flipped the freak out!”

Years Firsts Two Shows Wanted Found Successful Four Feet Directors Drawing Two Years Freak Gallery Exhibitions Flipped

Author:Betty Dodson

“I would love to collaborate on a graphic novel with an artist - I'm terrible at drawing but I really love that genre.”

Artist Novel Terrible Drawing Genre Graphic Graphic Novels

Author:Matthea Harvey

“Sometimes we make assumptions about influence when similarities between two writers' work are so strong, but they're still just assumptions. Some things are sort of zeitgeist-y. There's a collective consciousness and we're all drawing from it.”

Stills Two Sometimes Strong Consciousness Influence Drawing Assumption Collectives Similarity Zeitgeist Collective Consciousness

Author:Ron Currie Jr.

“As far as being territorial about one's own life, that's a mistake for ANY writer. All writers everywhere, in every genre, are drawing from their life and the lives of those around them for "material." Memoirs just make transparent and even amplify that activity.”

Mistake Materials Activity Drawing Memoir Genre Transparent Amplify Territorial

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“The truth is the music is really an incredible personal part of the movie. When I was drawing the storyboards for Watchmen, I had just gone to my iPod and was grabbing music. It took me about two weeks to really put my playlist together. But once I had it, I kinda just put my headsets on and drew for five months. But that music's the music that's in the movie.”

Two Together Gone Five Week Months Truth Is Music Is Incredibles Drawing Two Weeks Ipods Grabbing Playlists Headset

Author:Zack Snyder

“I played a lot of music all throughout my life, actually, but in high school I was in marching band and all the bands. So, I was big into music, I was big into drawing and sculpture, and all these different things.”

Different Bigs School Band High School Drawing Different Things Sculpture Marching Band

Author:Kirsten Lepore

“As far as CGI and hand-drawn animation, I consider them both nothing more than tools for drawing pictures, the same as crayons or oils. Which is why, to me, the most important thing is what it is you are drawing, and in the themes that I depict, I think hand-drawing is the most effective.”

Thinking Important Hands Tools Important Things Oil Drawing Theme Animation Crayon Cgi Drawing Pictures

Author:Mamoru Hosoda

“The process of producing a project is one long string of delight and anxiety, but I think the real thrill of animation would have to be drawing the pictures.”

Thinking Long Real Process Anxiety Projects Delight Drawing Strings Thrill Animation

Author:Mamoru Hosoda

“I did gardening and cooking and drawing and reading to try take the pressure off the music - just being eclectic and putting the fun back in and bringing more innocence in again is really important.”

Trying Important Reading Fun Pressure Cooking Drawing Innocence Gardening Just Being Eclectic

Author:Bat for Lashes

“My work often begins as little internal dares, wondering if I can pull something off. So I spent a few years drawing these stories together, trying to build a Pangea of what began as separate continents.”

Ifs Trying Years Littles I Can Stories Together Wonder Dare Drawing Internals Continents

Author:Anthony Marra

“I like drawing most everything I see, but sometimes the light will hit something in a certain way that I just cannot capture the thing the way I would like with a drawing, so I think taking a picture might be the way to document what I am seeing better.”

Thinking Way Sometimes Light Might Certain Seeing Drawing Capture Documents

Author:Jason Polan

“Sometimes I draw with my left hand and I am pretty terrible. The drawings end up just looking like shakier/inconsistent (worse) versions of my right hand drawings. Sometimes I like drawing with my eyes closed.”

Ends Sometimes Hands Eye Left Terrible Draws Drawing Versions Inconsistent Left Hand I Am Pretty

Author:Jason Polan

“Sometimes when I am drawing outside - when it is cold out it gets difficult (my hand gets slower when it is really cold) because I do not like wearing a glove while drawing, because I cannot feel the paper right.”

Feels Sometimes Hands Difficult Cold Paper Drawing Gloves

Author:Jason Polan

“I made a life-size drawing of King Kong's head which was about eight feet-by- six feet. I tried to measure the head (scaled to other things in the movie I could estimate the size of) that was in the movie in the early '30s, and I liked that I was making something "life-size" that was kind of a fictional thing.”

Kind Made Feet Kings Six Size Eight Drawing King Kong Life Size

Author:Jason Polan

“Sometimes I will draw people and they will move away too quickly for me to finish what I wanted, and it is not enough for me to consider it a drawing of them. I hope I have gotten better at capturing things quicker in a drawing.”

People Sometimes Enough Wanted Moving Draws Drawing

Author:Jason Polan

“One time I covered a wall with 8.5×11 pages of drawings, which made things feel a little bit different in the room.”

Feels Littles Made Different Bits Rooms Wall Little Bit Pages Drawing Covered One Time

Author:Jason Polan

“I draw in my sleep (dream of drawing) a lot. I don't think I have ever drawn anything in real life while I was sleeping, though. I do keep a pad near my bed, just in case.”

Thinking Real Dream Sleep Cases Bed Draws Drawing Real Life Pads Sleep Dream

Author:Jason Polan

“I became a writer through drawing first and then a comic book obsession - Marvel Comics, in particular. I invented a world of superheroes starting in third grade with my classmate, Wai-Kwan Wong. In a classroom of forty kids, let's just say there was a lot of undirected time. But this was good because I was a dreamy boy.”

World Firsts Book Kids Boys Particular Thirds Starting Drawing Obsession Comic Grades Forty Classroom Comic Book Superhero My Boys Dreamy Classmates Third Grade Marvel Comics

Author:Adam Ross

“I dismiss posts where one or other of the couple was wearing anything named by brand, or you know, baseball caps, or sweat pants, because I don't like drawing them, and I don't have to please anyone but myself.”

Knows Couple Please Baseball Drawing Brands Posts Sweat Pants Caps Baseball Caps

Author:Sophie Blackall

“There are also dozens and dozens of success stories; many couples have emailed me with their original posts. I love reading these stories, but confess I am not as interested in drawing them as the unfinished, elusive ones.”

Stories Reading Couple Originals Drawing Posts Dozen Elusive Unfinished Love Of Reading Success Stories

Author:Sophie Blackall

“I use dull colors in my drawings because I started out using a root beer base because it seemed like an interesting idea and when it turned out that it worked quite well as an ink I started using other colors that would compliment it.”

Wells Ideas Use Interesting Color Roots Drawing Beer Dull Compliment Ink Interesting Ideas Root Beer

Author:Marcel Dzama

“I've been very influenced by Inuit art especially some drawings and watercolors I've seen.”

Art Drawing Watercolors Inuit

Author:Marcel Dzama

“When I was a school kid I used to read lots of comics. This started me on drawing, I would make my own comics about my teddy bear whose name happened to be Ted.”

Kids School Used Names My Own Happened Bears Drawing Teddy Teddy Bear

Author:Marcel Dzama

“You can't use a drawing to prove a war crime. A drawing doesn't have that notion that it's proof of a reality. Because of that, you can do all sorts of interesting things in it.”

War Use Reality Can Do Interesting Crime Prove Notion Proof Drawing Interesting Things War Crimes

Author:Molly Crabapple

“8 year old young girl came up to me when I went to speak at an elementary school, and she gave me a drawing. It was great and she said "I want to be just like you when I grow up and direct movies". And that just made me choke up. It was so cute, and the reason why she's looking at me is I look like her.”

Want Years Looks Made Said Reason School Young Girl Speak Grows Growing Up Like You Direct Drawing Reason Why Cute Choke Like Her Elementary School

Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson

“I had only two girlfriends. I didn't have many friends because I was staying at home and dreaming - drawing and dreaming.”

Two Home Dream Drawing Girlfriend Staying Many Friends

Author:Riccardo Tisci

“Drawing is something I do on the side, I like to see it be of use at times.”

Use Sides Drawing

Author:Coeur de pirate

“I did this movie right after it about the life of Chet Baker. It's called Born to Be Blue. In that situation, there's a real clear character you're drawing on. It's a real person. It's really exciting and interesting to do the research to figure out how to make that a nuanced, three-dimensional human being.”

Humans Persons Real Character Three Born Human Beings Interesting Situation Clear Figures Research Exciting Blue Drawing Bakers Real Person Chet Baker

Author:Ethan Hawke

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