Drawing Quotes

The tongue like a sharp knife...
Kills without drawing blood.
- The Buddha

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
- John W. Gardner

May You Always Be Connected With Earth and Sky -
Drawing Energy From Both.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
- Henri Matisse

I'm not materialistic.
I believe in presents from the heart,
like a drawing that a child does.
- Victoria Beckham

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Drawing is the honesty of the art.
There is no possibility of cheating.
It is either good or bad.
- Salvador Dali

Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor
who is not limited by the body,
only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.
- Marc Davis

Drawing on my fine command of the English language,
I said nothing.
- Robert Benchley

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.
- Sergio Aragones

There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing.
- Christian Lacroix

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

We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked,
or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it,
in terms of paint, the subject matter,
the size, the drawing.
- Helen Frankenthaler

The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation.
The opening of the stone was far more interesting than
the drawing that I had done on it.
- Andy Goldsworthy

It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes,
and almost in the drawing of a breath,
the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
- Bram Stoker

You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done...
I am only interested in the present.
- Al Hirschfeld

In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper,
coloring them, backing them on cardboard,
then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.
- Terry Brooks

If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.
- Anne Seward

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!
- Don Bluth

I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended,
continuing and perfecting childhood drawing -
without the traditional interruption of academic training.
- Saul Steinberg

I think it is an inborn talent - just luck.
Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball.
Most people have something.
My talent is drawing and painting.
- Mike Thompson

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land,
drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.
- Siegfried Sassoon

The first writing of the human being was drawing,
not writing.
- Marjane Satrapi

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.
- Roy Lichtenstein

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject,
a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation,
in my case, for its own sake.
- Peter Wright

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art.
It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the
civil wars following the French Revolution.
- Edvard Munch

A lot of Irish people perform.
They perform in drawing rooms.
They sing songs and they play piano.
- Fiona Shaw

You reason color more than you reason drawing...
Color has a logic as severe as form.
- Pierre Bonnard

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward,
during surgery, or while drawing blood.
- Michael Crichton

I quit comics because I got completely sick of it.
I was drawing comics all the time and didn't have the
time or energy to do anything else.
That got to me in the end.
- Julie Doucet

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.
- Mary Leakey

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough
gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.
- Charles Kingsley

None of us knew what this power plant looked like.
We had no schematic drawing.
- William Scranton

We will be drawing down some troops.
If the president wants to try to turn that into the beginning of a success,
he actually, I think, has some opportunity.
- Stuart Rothenberg

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.
- William Gurnall

What you do is, you have your drawing board and a pencil
in hand at the telescope.
You look in and you make some markings on the paper and you look in again.
- Clyde Tombaugh

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.
- Roy Lichtenstein

The director's job should give you a sense of music
without drawing attention to itself.
- Taylor Hackford

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.
- Dick Bruna

When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light
hypnotic trance and compose while playing,
drawing directly from the emotions.
- John Fahey

If you can understand the humor in the drawing part
you'll probably get the humor in the audio part.
- Eric San

In spite of everything I shall rise again:
I will take up my pencil,
which I have forsaken in my great discouragement,
and I will go on with my drawing.
- Vincent Van Gogh

Some days you feel like this is really going well.
You can tell.
Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.
- Pat Oliphant

We don't sell technical drawings except when they are
incorporated into a drawing or a collage.
- Christo

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing,
photography, and writing.
- Layne Staley

It was exactly an assembly line.
You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.
- Gil Kane

The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls,
and it is impossible to say that in some among them,
drawing and color are better or worse than in others.
- Auguste Rodin

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power,
vigor, and activity of man's nature.
- Bishop Robert South

Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been
around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.
- Frank Darabont

Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game,
I was learning about designing stuff.
I got good at drawing.
- Bill Budge

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing.
It's about making the best kind of image I can make,
it's about talking as clearly as I can.
- Jim Dine

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another.
I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder
and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.
- Kate DiCamillo

A good advertisement is one which sells the product
without drawing attention to itself.
- David Ogilvy

By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the
same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.
- Norman McLaren

It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.
- Jim Woodring

Almost every scene, I re-think as I'm about to start drawing it,
and at least half of the time I'm changing dialogue or whatever,
or adding scenes or different things.
- Chester Brown

It became clear to me that I had to push it toward
a more representational way of drawing.
- Joe Sacco

My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever
paid in the halls of England.
Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.
- Lillie Langtry

I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to
themselves or living on the outskirts.
- Rachel Weisz

I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity,
or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.
- Hilary Duff

While most students were trying to draw one beautiful finished piece,
I would be in the background drawing dozens of studies
at different angles to use later.
- Frank Bruno

I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much.
It was like homework.
- Robert Crumb

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness
and the best out of our own students.
What better books can there be than the book of humanity?
- Cesar Chavez

When I am in the company of scientists,
I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake
into a drawing room full of dukes.
- W. H. Auden

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.
- Neil Simon

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.
- Ralph Allen

I have been drawing all my life.
- Dick Bruna

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.
- 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.
- Jim Hodges

I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve
themselves in a situation.
Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.
- Dr. Seuss

I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.
- Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

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