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“When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.”

Littles Said Used Mother Air Needed Draws Fingers Pencils

Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“I was like a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.”

Wells Children Littles Kids Faces Used Cutting Hair Draws 80s Patches Barbie Ponies Cabbage

Author:Natalie Portman

“Now you have to ask a question - is that really, is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of other people and walk off with the money? Or is that in fact somehow a little bit of a flawed system? And so I do draw distinction between looting a company, leaving behind broken families and broken neighborhoods and then leaving a factory that should be there.”

“Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and draw my own comic books when I was on the old Lost in Space series.”

Writing Wells Littles Book Facts Bigs Kids Used Lost My Own Space Fans Draws Series Comic Comic Book Little Kid

Author:Bill Mumy

“I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life.”

People Littles Long My Own Walks Scene Draws Boss Happy Life Brat Spoilt

Author:Frank Miller

“There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it.”

Littles Stories Fire Comfortable Draws Shame Rounds Winter Smell Ghost Spooky Ghost Stories Chestnuts

Book:Christmas Stories from

Source: Christmas Stories from

“When you've done all you can, do just a little bit more. Any extra effort you make will draw immense leverage from all the ordinary efforts which have preceded it. That can be powerful and effective.”

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Author:Ralph Marston

“In the evening I go up in the desert and spend hours watching the sun go down, just enjoying it, and every day I go out and watch it again. I draw some and there is a little painting and so the days go by.”

Littles Enjoy Hours Watches Sun Painting Draws Evening Desert

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“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.”

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Author:David Hockney

“A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance.”

May Littles Draws Observation Thrive Maintenance Matrimony Single Life Bachelors Yoke

Book:Love's sacrifice. Perkin Warbeck. The fancies chaste and noble

Source: Love's sacrifice. Perkin Warbeck. The fancies chaste and noble

“What do I want to express? The subject means little. The arrangement, the design, colour, shape, depth, light, space, mood, movement, balance, not one or all of these fills the bill. There is something additional, a breath that draws your breath into its breathing, a heartbeat that pounds on yours, a recognition of the oneness of all things.”

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“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

“My salvation has very little to do with anything that I have done... Jesus will go to any lengths to draw us to himself.”

Littles Done Jesus Draws Salvation Length

Author:Rich Mullins