Best Drawing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 19

“You've seen the first issue and what happened in the last page. Some pretty awful stuff. I don't know why I seem to be very good at drawing it!”

Knows Firsts Seems Lasts Stuff Issues Happened Pages Very Good Drawing Awful

Author:Declan Shalvey

“I love drawing what the character is feeling, in my comics, with no dialogue.”

Character Feelings Drawing Dialogue Love Drawings

Author:Vera Brosgol

“You work for so long on a graphic novel that it's easy to question your ideas or to burn out on drawing. But you plug away at it and trust in the story you want to tell. It's a marathon, but the finished product is really satisfying.”

Want Long Ideas Stories Easy Novel Products Finished Drawing Satisfying Marathon Graphic Plugs Burn Out Graphic Novels

Author:Vera Brosgol

“In animation and comics, the viewer breezes past the drawings. But with picture books, each page is going to be stared at and touched and read over and over. Maybe even chewed on a little. Everything needs to be thoughtful and economical, thirty-two little masterpieces.”

Needs Littles Two Book Past Pages Drawing Thirty Thoughtful Touched Viewers Masterpiece Breeze Animation Picture Books

Author:Vera Brosgol

“I think people are quite surprised that the handwriting I use in my drawings and paintings is my own handwriting. They're slightly shocked when I write them a letter.”

People Thinking Writing Use My Own Painting Letters Drawing Shocked Handwriting Drawing And Painting

Author:David Shrigley

“Making drawings with text in the first place, it really was born of a desire to be economic, and to do things as simply as possible, and to do as much as I could by the most economic means.”

Firsts Mean Desire Born Economic Drawing

Author:David Shrigley

“I had been doing wall drawings, but they were always black and white. Then in 1993 I painted all the walls of a room to make an installation and as soon as I saw the colour on the walls, it changed my whole life.”

Whole Black White Rooms Saws Changed Wall Drawing Whole Life Colour Black And White Installation

Author:Michael Craig-Martin

“I was 11 when I was first introduced to live drawing classes and going to art school.”

Firsts Art School Class Drawing Art School

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“I was very nervous about doing the Entertainment Weekly cover, because I thought, "Okay, this is the first taste, this is the first visual moment." By then I obviously knew a lot of the more iconic moments in his comic history, but still it's me. It's not a drawing, it's not an artist; it's me and I'm kinda frightened, but it seemed to go down.”

Firsts Stills Moments Artist Taste Okay Entertainment Drawing Nervous Comic Visuals Frightened Iconic

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“I would draw my own comic book characters listening to metal. The drawing and music kind of went hand in hand.”

Kind Book Character Hands My Own Listening Draws Drawing Comic Metals Comic Book Hand In Hand Book Characters Comic Book Characters

Author:Alan Robert

“My earliest memory of architecture, I was perhaps 6 or 7 years old, was of my aunt building a house in mosul in the north of iraq. The architect was a close friend of my father's and he used to come to our house with the drawings and models. I remember seeing the model in our living room and I think it triggered something, as I was completely intrigued by it.”

Thinking Years Remember Used Father House Memories Rooms Seeing Building Models Iraq Architecture Drawing Architect Aunt Living Room Intrigued Close Friends

Author:Zaha Hadid

“There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved to the development of ideas. Lately it has become what architecture should be, which is more fluid organization. There has not been so much 'a change' but 'a development'.”

Should Ideas Moments Focus Development Organization Moved Architecture Drawing Abstraction Fluid Fragmentation Early Work

Author:Zaha Hadid

“Ideas rather than methods are central to they way I work, although drawing plays a central generative role in everything I do.”

Way Ideas Play Roles Method Drawing

Author:Patricia Piccinini

“I have had sculptures cast in bronze, silver and aluminium. My drawings are all graphite or pigment ink and gouache on paper.”

Paper Casts Drawing Silver Sculpture Ink Bronze Pigment Aluminium

Author:Patricia Piccinini

“I usually have several things on the go. Whether it is my own drawings for the next work that I am working on while a sculpture is being fabricated or several works at different points in production.”

Different Next My Own Productions Drawing Sculpture

Author:Patricia Piccinini

“The drawings need to be strong enough to stand alone, and not just work as part of a sequence.”

Needs Enough Strong Drawing Sequence Strong Enough Stand Alone

Author:Richard McGuire

“As his campaign marches toward Cleveland, [Donald] Trump drawing more protests, too. Check out this scene from Arizona yesterday. The road to a Trump rally blocked. And there are new questions overnight about how Trump and his supporters are dealing with those protests.”

Trump Scene Drawing Campaigns Yesterday Checks Protest March Supporter Arizona Blocked Cleveland

Author:George Stephanopoulos

“I did take one drawing class in school, but for this book I spent a lot of time talking to painters and asking them silly questions.”

Book School Talking Class Asking Drawing Silly Painter Classes In School

Author:Liza Campbell

“I think that the FIDE leaders have to reconsider the current drawing rules - their advantages aren't very clear, but their shortcomings are obvious. Artificial drawing of the lots is detrimental for everyone.”

Thinking Leader Clear Advantage Currents Obvious Drawing Artificial Shortcomings Detrimental

Author:Mikhail Tal

“I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L' out of me.”

Names Parent Wall Bills Drawing Spells Cartoon

Author:Bil Keane

“When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.”

School Found Teacher Events Late High School Catholic Drawing Magazines Philadelphia Caricatures Notoriety

Author:Bil Keane

“I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.”

Important Laughing And Love Come Up Drawing Throat Warmth Belly Lumps Belly Laughs Lump In The Throat Warmth And Love

Author:Bil Keane

“Ideas mostly come from the work itself. Often when I'm drawing, the words will be bouncing around in my head, and when I'm writing, ideas about the drawing happen.”

Writing Ideas Happens Drawing

Author:Lynne Rae Perkins

“I made a drawing for a book I'm working . It's a little drawing of a girl who's ashamed and upset and hides in the corner of the closet. It's the kind of drawing that I feel like I'm really good at.”

Feels Kind Littles Made Book Girl Corners Drawing Upset Ashamed Working It Closets

Author:Lynne Rae Perkins

“If I could make a career out of drawing little girls hiding in corners, I would do really well.”

Ifs Wells Littles Girl Careers Corners Drawing If I Could Hiding

Author:Lynne Rae Perkins

“I love when I'm trying to do something I don't know how to do, and it kind of figures itself out along the way. And that means messing up a lot. That means throwing away a lot of drawings.”

Knows Way Trying Kind Mean Know How Figures Drawing Throwing Throwing Away Messing Up

Author:Lynne Rae Perkins

“Both of my parents were cartoonists - they met in art school - so I was always drawing and I was the best artist in my class and all that stuff.”

Art School Artist Stuff Parent Class Mets Drawing Cartoonist Art School Best Artist

Author:Mark Alan Stamaty

“Now, you integration-minded Negroes are trying to force yourselves on your former slave master, trying to make him accept you in his drawing room; you want to hang out with his women rather than the women of your own kind.”

Want Trying Kind Force Rooms Accepting Masters Slave Drawing Former Hanging Out Integration

Author:Malcolm X

“From as long as I can remember, I was always fond of drawing.”

Long I Can Remember Drawing

Author:St. Lucia

“I was constantly drawing and colouring. I had an immense love for art and anything which involved art fascinated me.”

Art Involved Drawing Fascinated Immense Immense Love

Author:St. Lucia

“I'm too old to make drawings.”

Drawing

Author:Quentin Crisp

“I was aware that my nomination was drawing a lot of attention, particularly in the Latino world, not just in Puerto Rico. It was touching.”

World Attention Drawing Touching Latino Nominations Puerto Rico Rico

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“They asked us to draw pictures of what we thought men and women look like naked and so I was like, "Get away, I'm doing my weird homework, drawing a naked man and woman." And I can't even draw. That's all I remember. I have no memory.”

Men Looks I Can Remember Memories Draws Men And Women Drawing Naked Get Away Homework No Memory

Author:Jen Kirkman

“I think it's important not to start drawing parallels, for example, between Theresa May, a fairly traditional conservative politician, who's now prime minister and Le Pen in France. Those aren't the same and the situation in each country is different.”

Thinking May Important Different Country Situation Example Politician Conservative Drawing Traditional France Ministers Pens Prime Prime Minister Parallels Theresa

Author:Barack Obama

“In drawing, I often think of things as flying buttresses.”

Thinking Drawing Flying

Author:Kiki Smith

“All those people who went out [to Occupy Wall Street] missed work, didn't get paid. Those were individuals who were already feeling the effects of inequality, so they didn't have a lot to lose. And then the individuals who were louder, more disruptive and, in many ways, more effective at drawing attention to their concerns were immediately castigated by authorities. They were cordoned off, pepper-sprayed, thrown in jail.”

People Way Feelings Individual Loses Attention Streets Effects Wall Authority Concern Paid Drawing Inequality Thrown Jail Peppers Disruptive Occupy Wall Street Drawing Attention

Author:Edward Snowden

“I am not sure that I know enough about the pre-history of 9/11 to agree or disagree. But I did think at the time that the [George W.] Bush administration took a number of cues from the Israeli government, not only by drawing on and intensifying anti-Arab racism, but by insisting that the attack on US government and financial buildings was an attack on "democracy" and by invoking "security at all costs" to wage war without a clear focus (why the Taliban?), and by suspending both constitutional rights and the regular protocol for congressional approval for declaring war.”

“When I say: "I'm looking at you, I can see you", that means: "I can see you because I can't see what is behind you: I see you through the frame I am drawing. I can't see inside you". If I could see you from beneath or from behind, I would be God. I can see you because my back and my sides are blind. One can't even imagine what it would be like to see inside people.”

People Ifs Mean I Can Would Be Sides Behinds Imagine Blind Drawing If I Could Because I Can Behind You

Author:Paul Virilio

“I worked at Disney many years ago. They just let me sit in a room for a couple of years and draw whatever I wanted to draw, so it's a very personal thing to me. Drawing and everything you do there is something meaningful and personal.”

Years Wanted Rooms Couple Draws Years Ago Let Me Drawing Meaningful Personal Things

Author:Tim Burton

“Any sort of working drawings are simply diagrams. Architecture encourages your imagination to work that way.”

Way Imagination Architecture Drawing Diagrams

Author:Paul Laffoley

“I tend to write first thing, and then do my drawing later. I like to draw at night. But often I go for long stretches without drawing, because I'm trying to figure out what I'm writing.”

Writing Trying Firsts Long Night Figures Draws Drawing

Author:Alison Bechdel

“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.”

Thinking Writing Different Courses Fun Interesting Activity Drawing More Time Consuming Cartoonist Time Consuming

Author:Alison Bechdel

“The writing is hard, and the drawing is fun. It's very satisfying to see a drawing start to come together.”

Writing Hard Together Fun Drawing Satisfying

Author:Alison Bechdel

“Pulling a gun's trigger can be an appalling act. But if it is suicidal drawing fire to save someone, it has an utterly different meaning. Placing your hand on someone's arm can be an act of deep compassion or the first step of betrayal. The punch line? It's all about context, and the biology of context is vastly more complicated than the biology of the behavior itself.”

Ifs Firsts Different Hands Lines Compassion Steps Fire Arms Behavior Gun Complicated Betrayal Drawing Biology First Steps Pulling Suicidal Triggers Of Context Different Meanings

Author:Robert M. Sapolsky

“Since childhood, I have been painting, for no special reason, numerous dots and nets, drawing from the hallucinations that seem to appear endlessly. I can't explain why if you ask me.”

Ifs Has Beens I Can Reason Seems Asks Childhood Special Painting Drawing Ask Me Dots Hallucinations

Author:Yayoi Kusama

“As a kid, you're starting to grow up and want more freedoms. But if you have people who are absorbing and adopting religious principles and teachings, they start drawing these lines and creating confines in their life to live within certain lines.”

People Ifs Want Kids Certain Grows Religious Lines Principles Growing Up Teaching Creating Starting Drawing Absorbing Adopting

Author:Mahershala Ali

“The thing to do is just make sure that as part of a disability community, we're not isolating ourselves by drawing differences for the sake of progress.”

Community Differences Progress Sake Drawing Things To Do Disability

Author:Zach Anner

“I think the media in America have been absolutely fantastic about the rise of Trump, they've kept a firm eye on the ball: this constitutes democracy, this constitutes transparency, this constitutes fairness, this constitutes the way to behave in a civic society, this constitutes fascism, this constitutes authoritarianism. They're drawing that line, and they're calling him out every time. That's really what needs to happen, and you just have to do that.”

Thinking Way Needs Has Beens Happens Eye America Lines Democracy Media Trump Calling Balls Drawing Fantastic Firm Behave Fascism Fairness Transparency Civics Authoritarianism

Author:Irvine Welsh

“What hermeneutics teaches is that progress comes from being exposed to different points of views because there's no point of view that is right for all situations and all times. And even if it's superior to the others, you can enrich it by drawing on others or thinking: "Why is that wrong and how do I improve my approach? How do I come up with a better approach?" So that's essential for innovation just like it is in technology.”

“At that [childhood] time, of course, if you were involved in art, it was going to be drawing and painting, because that's the only thing that was taught in the schools.”

Ifs Art School Courses Childhood Taught Painting Involved Drawing Drawing And Painting

Author:Warren MacKenzie

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