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“Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.”

Lines Pleasure Player Risk Trump Instinct Drawing Cards Instruction Seeming Uneasy Bending Perversity

Author:Adam Gopnik

“Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.”

Needs Art Skills Bones Drawing Accomplishment Skeletons

Author:Adam Gopnik

“When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.”

Men Way Darkness Path Paper Drawing Gestures Sheets Pencils

Author:Alberto Giacometti

“It is the bareness of drawing that I like. The act of drawing is what locates, suggests, discovers. At times it seems enough to draw, without the distractions of color and mass. Yet it is an old ambition to make drawing and painting one.”

Enough Seems Color Painting Ambition Mass Draws Drawing Distraction Drawing And Painting

Book:The drawings of Philip Guston

Source: The drawings of Philip Guston

“Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.”

Art Ideas Earth Progress Wall Development Art Is Bases Drawing Involvement Gallery Continuation Installation Art Galleries Public Art

Author:Sol LeWitt

“I was always into noir. When I lived in Vermont I was drawing stuff that looked like an amateur doing 'Sin City'. When I first got to New York I was swiftly informed that they only did guys in tights.”

Firsts Guy Stuff Sin Cities New York Drawing Noir Vermont Tights Sin City

Author:Frank Miller

“The teacher showed us how to see proportions, relationships, light and shadow, negative space, and space between space - something I never noticed before! In one week, I went from not knowing how to draw to sketching a detailed portrait. It literally changed the way I see things.”

Way Light Space Knowing Teacher Week Changed Draws Shadow Negative Drawing Proportion Not Knowing Portraits Space Between Sketching Light And Shadow Negative Space

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“It is the brushwork of the right value and color which should produce the drawing.”

Should Values Produce Color Drawing

Author:Camille Pissarro

“The architect must not only understand drawing, but music.”

Architecture Drawing Architect

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.”

Stills Values Design Color Painting Drawing

Author:Matt Smith

“There is only one right way to draw... physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses.”

Way Objects Draws Drawing Senses Contact Right Way

Book:The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

Source: The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

“You are not to think of painting as something separate from drawing.”

Thinking Painting Drawing

Book:The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

Source: The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

“When we use numbers we are using symbols, and it is only when we transfer them to life that they become actualities. The same is true with drawing and painting. They are to be learned, not as rules, but as actualities. Then the rules become appropriate.”

Use Numbers Painting Drawing Symbols Appropriate Transfers Actuality Drawing And Painting

Book:The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

Source: The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

“I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing parts of the tapestry that needed to be re-woven. My ability to draw made me indispensable to my parents.”

Made Whole Young Girl Parent Ability Missing Needed Draws Drawing Whole Life Indispensable Restoration Bourgeois Woven Tapestry

Author:Louise Bourgeois

“A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.”

Drawing Charm Unfinished

Book:Charles Webster Hawthorne

Source: Charles Webster Hawthorne

“No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of paper and a pencil or paints.”

Long I Can Jobs Pieces Paper Draws Paint Drawing Pencils

Author:John Newman

“Some drawings are better than others... Some are utterly spoiled... I keep them all. I find a use sometimes even for the worst drawing... But their chief use is to mortify one's conceit, to show how thoroughly incompetent it is possible to be, and to shame one into better ways.”

Way Sometimes Use Shows Worst Failure Shame Drawing Chiefs Conceit Better Ways Spoiled Incompetent

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“A mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it.”

Eye Difficult Mistake Drawing Familiar

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to retain it. He must advance or fall behind. Without practice he will forget; his eye will fail him; and his hand will deny its master.”

Hard Hands Eye Certain Fall Forget Behinds Practice Successful Failing Masters Degrees Deny Drawing Painter His Eyes Facility

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that... awakens in me a passionate desire to inhabit it, as though I were to feel more at home in it than in myself.”

Feels Sometimes Home Desire Passionate Drawing Passionate Desire

Author:Jean Helion

“Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness.”

Writing School Used Reading Taught Democratic Drawing Used To Be Things To Do Civilized Elementary School Reading And Writing Boon

Author:Michael Kimmelman

“Drawing is still the bottom line.”

Stills Lines Bottom Drawing Bottom Line

Book:The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn

Source: The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn

“For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.”

Drawing Tyranny Spontaneity Freshness

Author:Robert Genn

“I've found from years of trial that the only way I can work is to make sketches in pencil from Nature, purely as reference material for future use in the studio.”

Way Years I Can Use Found Materials Studios Drawing Trials Pencils

Author:E. J. Hughes

“Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines.”

Lines Watches Draws Drawing Shoulders Meaningless Pencils

Author:E. J. Hughes

“If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.”

Ifs Mean Art Perfect Powerful Identity Photography Ordinary Aspect Absolutes Disappear Drawing Closest Scrutiny Resemblance Absolute Truth Microscopes Photogenic

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views and they must all be equally good.”

Art Views Eight Drawing Sculpture Statues Good Art

Author:Benvenuto Cellini

“A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.”

Men Giving Mystery Creating Models Accomplish Drawing Designer Another Man Refined Sculptors Artisans

Book:Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume

Source: Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume

“Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way." ... "Surely a better time must be drawing nigh when godlike human beings will become truly humane, and learn to put their animal fellow mortals in their hearts instead of on their backs or in their dinners.”

Way Humans Heart Human Beings Animal Fellows Dinner Drawing Mortals Vegetarian Glimpse Humane Godlike

Author:John Muir

“We seem to know when to 'tap the heart.' Others have hit the intellect. We can hit them in all emotional way. Those who appeal to the intellect only appeal to a very limited group. The real thing behind this is: we are in the motion picture business, only we are drawing them instead of photographing them.”

Knows Way Heart Real Seems Behinds Groups Design Emotional Development Intellect Drawing Appeals Real Things Motion Pictures

Author:Walt Disney

“Disneyland is a work of love...Drawing up plans and dreaming of what I could do, everything. It was just something I kind of kept playing around with.”

Kind Dream Plans Drawing Disneyland Animator Meaningful Work Playing Around Theme Parks Parks And Recreation Love Drawings

Author:Walt Disney

“To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the interior form, the plan, the model. Look what remains after that! The drawing is three fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over my door to the atelier, I would write: School of drawing, and I'm certain that I would create painters.”

Ifs Writing Looks Mean Doe Ideas School Form Certain Three Half Plans Doors Painting Expression Models Draws Remains Drawing Painter Interiors

Author:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

“My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office.”

Firsts Art Care Father Saws Painting Office Concern Take Care Drawing Hairstyles Haitian

Author:Ralph Allen

“Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified.”

Writing Art Drawing Justified

Author:Maxwell Perkins

“I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found... that, having done a drawing of souls in Purgatory for the Bishop of St. Gata, he, in order to spend less, commissioned another painter to do the painting using my work. If I were a man, I can't imagine it would have turned out this way.”

People Ifs Men Way Made I Can Soul Done Today Order Found Imagine Particular Painting Drawing Painter Vow Solemn Bishops Cheated Purgatory

Author:Artemisia Gentileschi

“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”

“I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid.”

Knows Kids Color Painting Theory Drawing Nine Composition Drawing And Painting

Author:David Salle

“There was about six months when I was absorbing other stuff and not drawing very much. After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.”

Long Fun Stuff Months Periods Six Draws Drawing Six Months Absorbing

Author:Bryan Lee O'Malley

“I don't want to spend my entire life drawing talking heads. It seems like a waste of everyone's time.”

Want Seems Talking Waste Drawing Talking Heads

Author:Bryan Lee O'Malley

“To see the human condition in the old woman, in the child, in the model on the stand, in that particular human being, and to let the hand trace it, this act of adoration is called, 'drawing from life.”

Humans Children Hands Human Beings Conditions Particular Models Drawing Human Condition Adoration Old Woman

Author:Frederick Franck

“While drawing grasses I learn nothing 'about' grass, but wake up to the wonder that there is grass at all.”

Wonder Wake Up Drawing Grass

Author:Frederick Franck

“People become discouraged when they listen to their 'inner critic'... Whatever that voice is saying, articulate a response, drawing from the part of you that feels strong and confident. Be your own cheerleader.”

People Feels Strong Voice Courage Response Critics Drawing Discouraged Cheerleader

Author:Lauren Mackler

“Buildings are always better than drawings and models.”

Building Models Drawing

Author:Rafael Moneo

“When I was drawing this, I thought I’d put together Sailor Saturn and Sailor Chibi-Moon in a pair. Then I followed it with the Sailor Quartet. One of these days I’m going to put this team together into the manga. What a weird thing that would be. Anyway, here’s the six.”

Would Be Together Team Moon Six Drawing These Days Pairs Sailor Weird Things Quartets Saturn

Author:Naoko Takeuchi

“The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works and in reality the computer has a lot of influence on design.”

Reality Vision Influence Design Building Paper Computer Notion Architecture Drawing Traditional Architect

Author:Michael Hansmeyer

“A drawing of the nude is a most revealing expression because it is at once the most private and the most personal. Often such drawings are made with no thought of public exhibition. They possess the intimacy of diaries.”

Made Expression Drawing Intimacy Revealing Diaries Exhibitions

Book:The Artist & the Nude: An Anthology of Drawings

Source: The Artist & the Nude: An Anthology of Drawings

“When caricaturist, Al Hirschfeld, did a drawing of a celebrity, it often looked more like the person than the person did. That's our goal in animation.”

Persons Goal Masters Drawing Als Animation

Author:Brad Bird

“I know I draw without taking my pen off the page. I just keep going, and that my drawings I think of them as scribbles. I don't think they mean anything to anybody except to me, and then at the end of the day, the end of the project, they wheel out these little drawings and they're damn close to what the finished building is and it's the drawing.”

Thinking Knows Mean Littles Ends Building Projects Pages Draws Finished Drawing Damn Wheels The End Of The Day Keep Going Pens Scribbles

Author:Frank Gehry

“If you look at the success of snowboarding in the Winter Games and how that's brought a more youthful edge to the Olympics in general, they don't have that with the Summer Games. They don't have anything that's drawing in a younger viewership. To be honest, I think they need skateboarding more than we need them. Skateboarding's popularity is solidified for the most part in a lot of countries.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Looks Country Games Honest Summer Winter Edges Drawing Being Honest Popularity Olympics Skateboarding Snowboarding

Author:Tony Hawk

“I didnt grow up drawing runway models and deciding what they should wear.”

Should Grows Growing Up Models Drawing Runway

Author:Theophilus London

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