Best Drawing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 31

“Since the age of six, I have had a passion for drawing things. Now that I am 75 years, I have finally learned something of the true quality of birds, animals, insects, fishes, and of the vital nature of grasses and trees. By the time I am 89, I shall have made more progress. By the time I am 90, I shall understand the deeper meaning of things. When I am 100, I shall be truly marvelous; and at 110 each dot and each line will possess a life of its own.”

Years Made Age Passion Growth Lines Animal Quality Progress Tree Six Bird Fishes Deeper Drawing Grass Marvelous Insects Dots Deeper Meaning

Author:Hokusai

“I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art) is never really finished; it is abandoned.”

Mind Art Matter Art Is No Matter What Finished Drawing Works Of Art Abandoned Cartoon

Author:Brooke McEldowney

“One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization.”

Men Might Past Values History Records Civilization Bases Instinct Endure Drawing Impulse Scratches Diaries Saga Scrapbooking

Book:The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Criticism & memoirs

Source: The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Criticism & memoirs

“The first degree of proficiency is, in painting, what grammar is in literature, a general preparation for whatever the student may afterward choose for more particular application. The power of drawing, modeling, and using colors, is very properly called the language of the art.”

Firsts May Art Literature Language Students Particular Color Painting Degrees Drawing Preparation Application Grammar Modeling Proficiency

Book:The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Source: The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds

“That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.”

Heart Hands Political Force Interest Anger Drawing Driving Cartoon Driving Force Stripping Conundrums Political Cartoons

Author:Berkeley Breathed

“Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.”

Should Has Beens Reason Games Common Losing Should Have Drawing Chess Should Have Been Losing A Game

Author:Bent Larsen

“It is impossible to discuss realism in logic without drawing in the empirical sciences... A truly realistic mathematics should be conceived, in line with physics, as a branch of the theoretical construction of the one real world and should adopt the same sober and cautious attitude toward hypothetic extensions of its foundation as is exhibited by physics.”

Source: Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science

“A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.”

Rich Style Drawing Drawbacks

Author:Bill Griffith

“[Mickey Mouse] He popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.”

Years Mind Business Brother Years Ago Hollywood Train Fortune Corners Drawing Disaster My Brother Mice Lowest Manhattan Of My Mind Around The Corner Pads Mickey Minnie Mouse

Author:Walt Disney

“A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.”

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

Author:William Strunk, Jr.

“Artists draw for themselves, If someone draws for them, theyre not an artist. An artist is someone who makes their own music and albums. Artist think music is a drawing, and they draw theirs.”

Ifs Thinking Artist Music Is Draws Albums Drawing

Author:Jay Park

“We need to stop Sharon. His lethal policies are drawing blood on both sides. That's why we need a serious intervention -- international troops. And we need to end the occupation if there is to be security for both people.”

People Ifs Needs Ends Sides Blood Security Policy Serious International Drawing Occupation Troops Both Sides Intervention Sharon Drawing Blood

Author:Hanan Ashrawi

“Writing and drawing are very therapeutic, but they are also an excellent manifestation tool. I teach my clients to draw what they want, or to write a story about it to bring the manifestation forward into the present.”

Want Writing Stories Teach Draws Tools Drawing Excellent Manifestation Clients Therapeutic

Book:Wellness Wisdom

Source: Wellness Wisdom

“Drawing on impressive achievements in academics and athletics as well as his own personal disappointments and challenges, Jordan provides students with a unique opportunity to discover the magnitude of their own potential.”

Wells Opportunity Challenges Students Achievement Unique Disappointment Drawing Impressive Jordan Athletics Magnitude Unique Opportunities

Author:Hyrum W. Smith

“The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making. So it is with a life, anyone's life.”

Thinking Years Mean Doe Done Happens Bits Teacher Skills Drawing Things Happen Target Bows Splits Arrows Best Teacher

Author:Joseph Bruchac

“Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.”

Writing Doe Artist Painting Expression Personality Direct Species Drawing Spontaneous Sketching Drawing And Painting Painting And Drawing

Author:Edgar Degas

“God is always drawing us closer, blow by blow and bit by bit. And most of the time we do not even know it is happening.”

Knows Bits Happenings Blow Drawing

Book:On the Threshold of Transformation

Source: On the Threshold of Transformation

“I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast”

Ideas Father Son Drawing Contrast Succession

Author:Francis Ford Coppola

“The soul seeks God by faith, not by the reasonings of the mind and labored efforts, but by the drawings of love; to which inclinations God responds, and instructs the soul, which co-operates actively. God then puts the soul in a passive state where He accomplishes all, causing great progress, first by way of enjoyment, then by privation, and finally by pure love.”

Way Mind Firsts Soul States Effort Progress Pure Accomplish Drawing Enjoyment Reasoning Faith In God Passive Inclination Pure Love Great Progress

Author:Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

“In every art beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. And it is not only a matter of looking at the drawings, paintings, musical compositions, and poems that have been and are being created; it is a matter of being drawn into the individual work of art, of realizing that it has been made by a real human being, and trying to discover the secret of its creation.”

Source: Becoming a poet: source, process, practice

“Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a young beginning artist, no doubt they crop up again and again.”

Children Ideas Young Artist Doubt Return Drawing No Doubt Again And Again Crops

Author:Elaine de Kooning

“After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.”

Stills Two Ideas Hours Produce Needed Creatures Decided Notion Drawing Evening No Idea Pens Dozen Verses Ink Accompany

Author:Jack Prelutsky

“I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.”

Two Fun Animal Months Six Bird Down And Drawing Sat Editors Dozen Six Months Accompany Just For Fun

Author:Jack Prelutsky

“I have chosen to fight against corruption in this country, though I have been advised not to because we are drawing closer to this year’s Tripartite Elections. I know I am fighting against people who are smarter, wealthier and advanced.”

People Knows Years Has Beens Country Fighting Election Corruption Drawing Chosen Smarter

Author:Joyce Banda

“Drawing Lavi’s smile eases me precisely because he has such a sad fate.”

Fate Drawing Ease

Author:Katsura Hoshino

“Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published.”

Book Courses Father Chance Drawing France

Author:Dick Bruna

“I am going to do some drawings or paintings...in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something.”

Figures Painting Mirrors Drawing Wardrobe

Author:Gwen John

“Try to distill the character of your subject. Understand how he moves, thinks, acts. It's difficult to put into words. Consider each drawing as a problem that did not exist before, and then try to solve that problem to the best of your ability. That i what caricature is all about”

Thinking Trying Character Problem Moving Difficult Ability Subjects Solve Drawing Caricatures

Author:Al Hirschfeld

“Making clothes involves what I like...color, pattern, shape and movement...I like the everyday process...the people, the pressure, the surprise of seeing the work come alive walking and dancing around on strangers. Like red lipstick on the mouth, my products wake up and brighten and bring the wearer to life...drawing attention to her beauty and specialness...her moods and movements...her dreams and fantasies.”

“The word "photography" can be interpreted as "writing with light" or "drawing with light." Some photographers are producing beautiful photographs by drawing with light.. Some other photographers are trying to tell something with their photographs. They are writing with light.”

Writing Trying Light Beautiful Photography Photographer Photograph Drawing

Author:Philippe Halsman

“When I look at a drawing of a person, I look at that person as living.”

Looks Persons Drawing

Author:Francesco Clemente

“A true Educator locates the intelligence and abilities within another, drawing them out for all, even the student, to see. And then steps out of the way, allowing them to develop, create and pursue their talent.”

Way Ability Steps Talent Students Drawing Pursue Allowing Educator

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“Drawing is the root of everything.”

Roots Drawing

Book:Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings

Source: Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings

“To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw.”

Practice Learning Draws Drawing Illustrators Learning By Doing

Author:Andrew Loomis

“If you're still drawing breath, God's not done with you yet. Don't quit. Be brave and believe God is for you.”

Ifs Believe Stills Done Breaths Brave Drawing Quitting Believe In God Be Brave Done With You

Author:Beth Moore

“Everything in life is drawing, if you want. Drawing is quintessential to knowing the self. Art that survives from one generation to the next is the art that actually carries something that tells society about self.”

Ifs Want Art Self Life Is Next Knowing Generations Drawing Carrie Quintessential

Author:Richard Tuttle

“Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.”

Imagination Exercise Drawing Restless

Author:Tim Burton

“In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best.”

Believe I Believe Originals Drawing Being The Best Gestures Erase

Author:Ellsworth Kelly

“Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.”

Thinking Writing Action Seeing Music Is Hearing Drawing Composing Composing Music

Book:Me

Source: Me

“I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Able Draws Drawing Painter Backbone

Author:LeRoy Neiman

“Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a strong distortion of the objects, with a crude handling of matter. Moments altogether new, never seen before compositions whose boldness outstrips the imagination of painters Then the creation of those instants which do not exist, contrived by means of photomontage. The negative transmits altogether new stimuli to the sentient mind and eye.”

“I am trying to represent design through drawing. I have always drawn things to a high degree of detail. That is not an ideological position I hold on drawing but is rather an expression of my desire to design and by extension to build. This has often been mistaken as a fetish I have for drawing: of drawing for drawing’s sake, for the love of drawing. Never. Never. Yes, I love making a beautiful, well-crafted drawing, but I love it only because of the amount of information a precise drawing provides”

Trying Wells Beautiful Desire Information Design Position Expression Amount Degrees Sake Details Drawing Mistaken Precise Extensions Ideological Love Making Fetish

Author:Neil Denari

“I have drawn things since I was 6. All that I made before the age of 65 is not worth counting. At 73 I began to understand the true construction of animals, plants, trees, birds, fishes, and insects. At 90 I will enter into the secret of things. At 110, everything - every dot, every dash - will live. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age, I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign myself 'The Old Man Mad About Drawing.'”

Men Writing Long Made Age Today Used Animal Secret Tree Promise Bird Mad Plant Fishes Drawing Old Age Old Man Construction Insects Counting I Promise Dots Plant A Tree

Author:Hokusai

“There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.”

Art Lines Painting Civilization Dancing Drawing Sand Caves Lines In The Sand

Author:Toni Morrison

“If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something.”

Ifs Mind Teach Learning Teaching Draws Angel Experience Drawing People In Your Life Famous Women Halos

Author:Yoko Ono

“The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.”

Mind Capable Drawing Impression Conclusion Receiving Drawing Conclusions

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.”

Kind Has Beens Wall Drawing Storytelling Visuals Cavemen Visual Storytelling

Author:Frank Darabont

“I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.”

Trying Drawing Racist Gossip

Author:Hilary Duff

“Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.”

Mind Stills Music Painting Pure Harmony Misery Depth Corners Driven Drawing Calmness Momentum Irresistible Poorest Cottages Starry Night Nonentity

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.”

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