Best Drawing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 21

“What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?”

“Home gigs can be hard because it's an odd collision. More than anything, I feel self-conscious when my family are in the audience. I'm doing this job which is not quite acting - part of it is me, part performance. You're presenting a cartoon of yourself to people who know you as a line-drawing.”

People Knows Feels Self Hard Home Jobs Lines Acting Audience Conscious My Family Performances Drawing Odd Cartoon Gigs Self Conscious Presenting Collision

Author:Dylan Moran

“As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.”

Wells Kids Adults Drawing Notebook Leonardo

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.”

Hands Common Cases Too Much Draws Fingers Drawing Fancy Burned Symptoms Burned Out Cramps

Author:Scott Adams

“One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's something about that that keeps it fresh to the viewer.”

Reason Style Drawing Reason Why Viewers Changes Over Time

Author:Scott Adams

“Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.”

Reason Life Is Battle Drawing Destroying Sustenance Faith And Reason

Book:Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)

Source: Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)

“As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.”

People Knows Writing Children Animal Know How Strange Grew Grew Up Pages Adults Bottom Drawing Chickens Farms Handwriting Scribbles

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.”

Way Writing Firsts Littles Different Novel Five Four Adults Drawing Mysterious Comic Different Ways Grandmother My Grandmother Typewriters Handwriting Comic Strips Scribbles

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.”

Business Attention Products Sells Drawing Advertising Advertisements Advertising Agencies Great Advertising Drawing Attention

Book:Confessions of an advertising man

Source: Confessions of an advertising man

“I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.”

Ifs Children Hours Rooms Car Quiet Drawing Nine Planes Take Me Racing Pencils Rockets Loner Spaceships Race Car Crayon Take Me Away

Author:Gary Oldman

“I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.”

Believe Heart Children Doe I Believe I Believe In Drawing Birthday Sentimental Materialistic

Author:Victoria Beckham

“To draw you must close your eyes and sing.”

Art Eye Artist Creative Draws Drawing Creative Artists Creativity And Writing

Book:Picasso

Source: Picasso

“It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.”

Art Character Fine Surprise Drawing Incessantly Sketching True Character Fine Day

Book:Camille Pissarro

Source: Camille Pissarro

“Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.”

Inspirational Said Book Funny Language Silence Fine Drink Educational Stupidity Drawing Command Beer Sarcasm Sarcastic English Language

Author:Robert Benchley

“I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.”

Artist Color Painting Finals Drawing

Book:Jackson Pollock

Source: Jackson Pollock

“When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed.”

Knows Helping Home Bed Tired Drawing Coming Home Baths I'm Tired

Author:Oliver Reed

“Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.”

Way Connections Metaphor Drawing

Author:John Berger

“For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.”

Artist Discovery Drawing Phrases Slick

Book:Selected Essays of John Berger

Source: Selected Essays of John Berger

“A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.”

Records Events Discovery Finished Drawing Remembered Constructs Finished Work

Author:John Berger

“A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work - related far more directly to the demands of communication.”

Needs Artist Communication Demand Finished Drawing Related Canvas Statues Work Related

Book:Selected Essays of John Berger

Source: Selected Essays of John Berger

“The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.”

Men Soul Impossible Color Expression Genius Drawing

Book:Rodin on Art and Artists

Source: Rodin on Art and Artists

“Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'”

People Ifs Writing Stories Accounts Drawing Memoir

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos, eating, hanging out, things that make noise - all are now the norm, often edging out much else.”

Art Stuff Audience Eating Drawing Noise Contemplation Hanging Out Museums Invites Entertaining Norm

Author:Jerry Saltz

“You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.”

Enough Curiosity Drawing Sketching

Author:John Singer Sargent

“For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.”

Writing Draws Drawing Life And Death

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“I had two major activities as a child. I was trying to put on shows with kids in my street, or I was drawing. Actually, what I'm doing now is exactly what I was doing then. Either I'm drawing, or I'm gathering people for a common project. The only difference is that now they are paying me for that.”

People Trying Children Two Shows Kids Differences Common Streets Activity Projects Majors Drawing Gathering

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means that anyone can identify to a drawing. I mean, people can identify themselves with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse.”

People Humans Mean Problem Human Beings Drawing Ducks Mice Identifying Mean People Mickey Donald Duck

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Mean Brother Tables Drawing My Brother Brothers And Sisters Wants To Be Alone

Author:Maurice Sendak

“I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.”

Writing Artist Felt Female Gender Drawing Oppressed

Author:Patti Smith

“I didn't begin my life in 1975 with 'Horses.' I recorded 'Horses' in 1975, but was drawing in Paris in 1969.”

Horse Drawing Paris

Author:Patti Smith

“Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.”

Writing Looks Language Involved Drawing Introducing Handwriting

Author:Patti Smith

“Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.”

Writing Photography Music Is Drawing Doorways

Author:Layne Staley

“My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which now that I look back on some things, she would love it, she would say that's amazing, or if I'd make the ugliest drawing, she would hang it up. She was amazing.”

Ifs Looks Kids Mother Drawing Tricks Supportive

Author:David Blaine

“On a purely personal level, it's very strange, because as a kid, Superman informed my personality. Now I've been given the job of forming Superman's personality and, in some ways, drawing on my own background.”

Way Kids Jobs Given My Own Levels Strange Personality Drawing Backgrounds

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.”

Should Writing Reason Lines Should Have Machines Sentences Drawing Unnecessary Vigorous Paragraph Brevity Concise Written Language

Author:William Strunk, Jr.

“Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.”

Style Drawing Cigarette Glamour Cocktails Terrace

Author:Bill Blass

“A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.”

Levels Drawing Caption

Book:Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

“My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.”

Actors Imagination Situation Approach Draws Drawing Life Experience Expanding Greatest Gifts

Author:Vince Vaughn

“Classical music and pop are two different universes, each with its own difficulties, peculiarities, depth and artistic dignity. In Italy, I think there is a fairly clear line of demarcation, but the history of music is full of fusion. Popular and classical music have always found points of contact, of crossing, exchange, both drawing mutual profit.”

“Blog-based businesses have lower cost structures and are more 'authentic,' and as a result are drawing larger shares of ad budgets.”

Results Share Cost Structure Drawing Budgets Ads Blogs

Author:Fred Wilson

“That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.”

People Knows Doe Courses Special Paid Library Architecture Drawing Brands Homage Special Places

Author:Jim Woodring

“This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.”

Important Book War Feelings Peace Women Rooms Deals Assuming Critics Drawing Insignificant

Author:Virginia Woolf

“I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.”

Firsts Art Creative Comedy Draws Thirds Paint Guitar Drawing Abstract Grades Abstract Art Third Grade

Author:Steven Wright

“We've seen the uproars around the world concerning cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad. Anyone who does not think comic strips are relevant never had a fatwa put on him/her for drawing a picture.”

Thinking World Doe Drawing Around The World Comic Prophet Relevant Cartoon Comic Strips

Author:Elayne Boosler

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”

“Seating themselves on the greensward, they eat while the corks fly and there is talk, laughter and merriment, and perfect freedom, for the universe is their drawing room and the sun their lamp. Besides, they have appetite, Nature's special gift, which lends to such a meal a vivacity unknown indoors, however beautiful the surroundings.”

Beautiful Universe Perfect Rooms Sun Special Food Laughter Cooking Drawing Meals Culinary Appetite Lamps Surroundings Merriment Cork Special Gifts Vivacity

Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.”

Ifs Wells Might Prepared Drawing Creeps

Book:Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews

Source: Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews

“He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.”

Love Mind Looks Philosophy Eye Literature Love Is Virtue Wise Seeing Objects Becoming Educational Drawing Beloved His Eyes Wiser

Book:A Year with Emerson: A Daybook

Source: A Year with Emerson: A Daybook

“We're living in momentous times, Garion. The events of a thousand years and more have all focused on these very days. The world, I'm told, is like that. Centuries pass when nothing happens, and then in a few short years events of such tremendous importance take place that the world is never the same again." I think that if I had my choice, I'd prefer one of those quiet centuries," Garion said glumly. Oh, no," Silk said, his lips drawing back in a ferretlike grin. "Now's the time to be alive - to see it all happen, to be a part of it. That makes the blood race, and each breath is an adventure.”

Ifs Thinking World Years Said Happens Choices Race Alive Blood Century Events Adventure Thousand Quiet Importance Breaths Lips Focused Drawing Thousand Years Silk

Author:David Eddings

“When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.”

Desire Space Quiet Drawing Being True Fidelity Quiet Space

Book:Written On The Body

Source: Written On The Body

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