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“I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.”

Has Beens Made War Found Situation Periods Draws Drawing Vietnam Very Sad

Author:Gerald Scarfe

“You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?”

Real Sound Rooms Issues Comedy Brilliant Drawing Wit Guilty Cowardice Noel

Author:Peter De Vries

“When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.”

Men World Soul Moving Spirit Causes Wealth Animal Comfort Response Drawing Pursuit Impulse Awe Casting Pursuit Of Happiness Irresistible Stirring

Book:The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941

Source: The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941

“I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just a puzzled man making notes about what you think. You are not building the Pantheon, then why act like a graven image? You are drawing sketches in the sand which the sea will wash away.”

Thinking Men Writing Political Sea Building Notes Drawing Absurd Sand Delivering Utterance Puzzled Pretence Pantheon Political Writing

Book:Force and Ideas: The Early Writings

Source: Force and Ideas: The Early Writings

“Some sculptors make drawings, I make heads.”

Drawing Sculptors

Author:David Altmejd

“Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life.”

Ends Enough Death Drawing Life Death

Book:Sophocles

Source: Sophocles

“It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.”

People Knows Looks Ideas Whole Justice Ordinary Method Criminals Drawing Contests Criminal Justice Indictment Pedantic

Book:Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches

Source: Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches

“Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.”

Men Quality Masters Civilization Drawing Admire March Mediocrity Vans Columns Formation Totems

Book:The pursuit of humor and other essays

Source: The pursuit of humor and other essays

“I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.”

Men Stuff Taken Drawing Bored

Author:Alison Bechdel

“Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.”

Writing Sometimes Wish Drawing Mediums Integrated

Author:Alison Bechdel

“Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.”

Thinking Writing Art Play Moments Happened Drawing

Author:Neil Simon

“I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.”

Film My Own News Drawing Magazines Reviews Commentary

Author:Carlos Fuentes

“A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.”

Two Rooms Silence Minutes Months Drawing Magazines Dust Recognition Popularity Shelves Essays Novelty Columns Forthcoming

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.”

Want Stills Drawing Making Changes

Author:Roy Lichtenstein

“But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.”

Wanted Certain Painting Paper Committed Drawing Printed Dots Collages

Book:Roy Lichtenstein: new paintings

Source: Roy Lichtenstein: new paintings

“I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.”

Mind Looks Kind Hard Color Painting Size Drawing

Author:Roy Lichtenstein

“Unlike the photography and prints, I never catalogued, kept track of or exhibited the sketches. I sold some occasionally, but never saw myself as a graphic artist. They became more important to me thanks to the exhibition, however, and I realized that these drawings were quite interesting after all.”

Art Important Artist Interesting Saws Painting Photography Track Drawing I Realized Thanks Print Graphic Exhibitions Graphic Artist

Author:Gerhard Richter

“I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affection, feel His invisible and intangible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess an inner consciousness of a particular providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my own destiny.”

“I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also models of wood or any other material. These... enable us to examine... the work as a whole... and, before continuing any further, to estimate the likely trouble and expense.”

Whole Trouble Materials Models Woods Drawing Expenses Customs Architect Continuing Preparing Tire

Author:Leon Battista Alberti

“I Never Liked You. I think that's my best book. I think it works the best as a story, and I like the drawing. It works on both levels, for me at least.”

Thinking Book Stories Levels Drawing

Author:Chester Brown

“It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.”

Ifs Hands Relationship Materials Mouths Drawing Collaboration Revealing Transmit Collaborating

Author:Jim Hodges

“When I was a barber, me being extreme was how I got popular: you name it, I was drawing it on someone's head.”

Names Extremes Drawing Barbers

Author:Swizz Beatz

“The drawing and the crafting of the story are fun, but it's the overall meaning that matters to me. It might escape some people who just want to read a comic, and that's fine. The overall meaning is what matters.”

People Want Matter Stories Might Fun Fine Drawing Comic What Matters

Author:Brian Michael Bendis

“Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books.”

Children Book Whole Would Be Together Wonderful One Day Drawing Children's Books

Author:Dick Bruna

“If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!”

Ifs World Use Joy Artist Computer Machines Drawing Drudgery Best Of Both Worlds

Author:Don Bluth

“I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I carried around in college when I was earnest about drawing. I need to have some idea of the shape of the novel, where its headed, so that I can proceed with confidence. But the truth is my characters start doing and saying things I don't expect.”

Thinking Knows Way Needs Writing Kind Art I Can Ideas Character Novel College Truth Is Shapes Drawing Maps Earnest Pads

Author:Julianna Baggott

“Even the National Bank of Romania doesn't have the huge resources needed to intervene in the market and keep the leu at an acceptable level, because they're drawing close to a floor below which the bank's reserves can't drop. The central bank has to wait for a moment of calm to efficiently conduct its interventions.”

Moments Waiting Levels Huge Needed Resources Calm Drawing Acceptable Reserves Intervention Central Banks Romania

Author:Traian Basescu

“Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.”

Ifs Writing Has Beens Done Draws Scary Drawing Disguise Revealing Could Have Been Drawers

Author:Anne Carson

“I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.”

Art Book Would Be Wanted Painting Drawing Painter Doubters Drawing And Painting

Author:Billy Childish

“Well, I love tattoos and have been drawing them on my binders in school since I was little.”

Wells Littles Has Beens School Drawing Tattoo Binders

Author:Kimberly Caldwell

“The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawing. And then eventually it ends up at auction. And then critics say, 'Oh, that's a bad drawing!' Well, I didn't say it was so wonderful.”

Giving Wells Littles Ends Wonderful Draws Critics Drawing Best Work Auctions

Author:Marlene Dumas

“All the drawings and sketches and clothes of Yves Saint Laurent in the '70s were so colorful, so bright.”

Clothes Saint Drawing Colorful

Author:Frida Giannini

“The comics were not only stories to enjoy for me they were drawings that possessed me.”

Stories Enjoy Drawing Possessed

Author:Jean Giraud

“I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.”

Trying Understanding Thousand Drawing Fifty Louvre

Author:Alberto Giacometti

“Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design.”

Sometimes Character Middle Design Solutions Drawing Composition Equilibrium Gags Character Design

Author:Sergio Aragones

“When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.”

Stories Subjects Particular Involved Drawing More Time Daydreaming

Author:Sergio Aragones

“The most distinguishing element of my novels is that I try as hard as I can - within the context of a popular commercial thriller - to make them feel authentic. Drawing on real locations and real events is part of that authenticity.”

Feels Trying I Can Real Hard Novel Events Elements Drawing Authenticity Location Thrillers

Author:Alex Berenson

“Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly prevailed in this country, of never submitting to the eye of the student, the figures on whose properties he is reasoning, but of drawing perspective representations of them upon a plane. ...I hope that I shall never be obliged to have recourse to a perspective drawing of any figure whose parts are not in the same plane.”

Country Eye Science Practice Study Figures Students Perspective Elements Property Obstacles Drawing Planes Reasoning Representation Obliged Geometry Beginners Recourse

Author:Augustus De Morgan

“God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him.”

Sin Cutting Who You Are Drawing Ties Strings Knots Wrongdoing Knowing Who You Are

Author:Meister Eckhart

“I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.”

Stills Reason Painting Passionate Drawing Pencils Pads Painting And Drawing

Author:Danny Huston

“I had TB as a child. So I was put to doing things like drawing and reading. And I was raised in a family where manners were important. Maybe that's why I seem so refined.”

Children Important Seems Reading Raised Drawing Manners Refined

Author:Katherine Helmond

“The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.”

Giving Should Jobs Attention Directors Drawing Drawing Attention

Author:Taylor Hackford

“When I retire I'm gonna bet on Wolves drawing every game. I'll be a multi-millionaire!”

Games Drawing Retiring Millionaire

Author:Paul Ince

“One thing I do personally started 20 years ago. I started meditating, and I know twice a day I can kind of let everything drop. It's just about being quiet, like drawing back the day, and it allows me to have energy.”

Knows Years Kind I Can Energy One Thing Quiet Years Ago Drawing Meditating Being Quiet

Author:Hugh Jackman

“I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.”

Drawing Enjoyed Love Drawings

Author:Jasper Johns

“You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever.”

Knows Kind Art Stuff Forever Painting Drawing All Kinds Piano

Author:Shooter Jennings

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