Best lines & drawing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.”

Dream Form Song Lines Childhood Rocks Originals Albums Drawing Bunch Punk Rock And Roll Dreams Come True Influential Childhood Dreams

Author:Gerald Caiafa

“I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.”

Thinking Wells Done Film Used Lines Television Crosses Scripts Drawing Intriguing Well Done Film And Television

Author:Natalie Zea

“I close my eyes and can see men drawing lines in the dust. America pushes through the membrane of mist and smoke, and I'm a small boy again in Bogalusa.”

Men Eye America Lines Boys Drawing Dust Smoke Mist Membranes Drawing The Line

Author:Yusef Komunyakaa

“Until I saw my drawings replayed on the iPad, I'd never seen myself draw. Someone watching me would be concentrating on the exact moment, but I'd always be thinking a little bit ahead. That's especially so in a drawing where you are limiting yourself, a line drawing for example. When you are doing them you are very tense, because you have to reduce everything to such simple terms.”

Thinking Littles Moments Would Be Bits Term Lines Simple Saws Example Little Bit Draws Drawing Where You Are Tense Concentrating Ipads Limiting Yourself

Author:David Hockney

“Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about... I understand what he was doing: discovering what's there... to make the line meaningful, to find a linear solution.”

Lines Tears Solutions Drawing Meaningful Lovely Discovering Linear Charcoal Matisse

Author:David Hockney

“I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more.”

Ifs Persons I Can Lines Silence Drawing Noise

Book:David Hockney

Source: David Hockney

“Compare constantly, lines and angles... Hold looking-glass before your model and your drawing. Take a second's glance only, and see if the impression be the same. If it be not, ask, 'What is the difference?”

Ifs Asks Differences Lines Models Glasses Drawing Impression Compare Angle Glances

Book:William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing

Source: William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing

“Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend they'll last forever.”

Lasts Easy Lines Forever Painting Paper Drawing Bags Plastic Cheaper Plastic Bags

Author:Marlene Dumas

“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 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

“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

“The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of drawing lines.”

Should Lines Policy Logic Sake Drawing Rooted Drawing The Line

Author:Felix Frankfurter

“Your eye level is your reference point for drawing the perspective lines. All lines above your eye level will go down to the horizon vanishing point and all lines below your eye level will go up to the horizon vanishing point.”

Eye Lines Levels Perspective Drawing Horizon Vanishing Vanishing Point

Author:Robert A. Lovett

“Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.”

Art Artist Lines Color Drawing Symbols Tone Plastic Graphic Formation Cornerstones Coordination

Author:John French Sloan

“Line is the most powerful device of drawing.”

Lines Powerful Drawing Most Powerful Devices

Author:John French Sloan

“The average artist, if he chooses, could render an exact drawing of what he sees. Artistic work not only allows but demands some deviation from form and line. Just how far this may go depends on the viewpoint of each painter.”

Ifs May Form Artist Lines Depends Demand Average Drawing Painter Artistic Realism Viewpoints Deviation

Author:Edgar Alwin Payne

“With respect to the use of this sparkling coloured material (butterfly wings around 1955, fh) - the constituent parts of which remain indistinguishable - with the aim of producing a very vivid effect of scintillation, I realised that, for me, this responds to needs of the same order as those that formerly led me, in many drawings and paintings, to organize my lines and patches of colour so that the objects represented would meld into everything around them, so that the result would be a sort of continuous, universal soup with an intensive flavour of life.”

“With pencil there is a tendency to be timid, either using very faint lines or erasing bad lines... Line sketching tends to emphasize the structure of a drawing rather than the nuances of media.”

Lines Media Structure Drawing Tendencies Pencils Nuance Sketching

Author:Paul Laseau

“It's one thing to be sitting at a drawing board, alone in your home and coming up with a fantasy character, and drawing her whichever way you feel like drawing, then dealing with a real performer. All of a sudden, things change. It's amazing, in working with actors, how much I learn from them and how many new lines will come to mind because of their personality or their strengths.”

Way Feels Mind Real Character Home Actors Lines Fantasy One Thing Personality Sitting Drawing Boards Performers Things Change

Author:Frank Miller

“One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.”

Film Lines Historical Drawing Now And Then Drawing The Line

Author:James Purefoy

“Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!”

“So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the 'global village' we would propagate prejudice and ignorance. There was absolutely no harm in being part of a small group - indeed, with our hunter-gatherer band mentality it gave comfort, provided us with an inner circle of friends who could be utterly trusted, who were absolutely reliable. It helped give us peace of mind. The danger came only from drawing that sharp line, digging that ditch, laying that minefield, between our own group and any other group that thought differently.”

“In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature.”

World Facts Culture Lines Pieces Western Boxes Decades Drawing Interconnected Western Culture Drawing The Line

Author:Margaret J. Wheatley

“I couldn't possibly tell you. But I would say be very careful with your suppositions. People are so quick to jump. That's what I love about playing the character. People are so quick to draw conclusions about who he is. The whole thing about Loki is that he's dancing on this liminal line between redemption and destruction. Just be very careful about drawing conclusions based on what you see.”

People Whole Character Lines Draws Destruction Dancing Careful Drawing Conclusion Redemption Supposition Drawing Conclusions

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.”

Has Beens Hands Earth Lines Hell Letters Drawing Plot Spoil

Book:The Christian in Complete Armour: Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare

Source: The Christian in Complete Armour: Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare

“I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line.”

Want Lines Labor Drawing

Author:Ellsworth Kelly

“Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a form, a splotch of color. Any accident is good enough. I let the matiere decide. Then I prepare a ground by, for example, wiping my brushes on the canvas. Letting fall some drops of turpentine on it would do just as well. If I want to make a drawing I crumple the sheet of paper or I wet it; the flowing water traces a line and this line may suggest what is to come next.”

Ifs Want Wells May States Enough Form Fall Next Water Lines Example Color Paper Accidents Drawing Shops Good Enough Wet Canvas Provoking Brushes Sheets Flowing Water

Author:Joan Miro

“The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the condition of the Negro is ever the cause for further discrimination.”

Causes Lines Conditions Color Drawing Discrimination Tendencies Discouragement Reactionaries

Book:Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Source: Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“I drew pictures rapidly and with few lines, because I had to write most of the pieces, too, and couldn't monkey long with the drawings. The divine urge was no higher than that.”

Writing Long Lines Pieces Divine Higher Drawing Urges Monkeys

Book:The Thurber letters: the wit, wisdom, and surprising life of James Thurber

Source: The Thurber letters: the wit, wisdom, and surprising life of James Thurber

“The difference between what we see and a sheet of white paper with a few thin lines on it is very great. Yet this abstraction is one which we seem to have adopted almost instinctively at an early stage in our development, not only in Neolithic graffiti but in early Egyptian drawings. And in spite of its abstract character, the outline is responsive to the least tremor of sensibility.”

Source: The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art

“I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.”

Stuff Lines Records Color Okay Drawing Just Do It

Author:Robyn Hitchcock

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