Draftsman Quotes

• To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.

  John James Audubon

  Blessing

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• By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.

  Frank Frazetta

  Art, Teenager, Form

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• The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

  Jean Cocteau

  Freedom, Math, Doors

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• All good and genuine draftsmen draw according to the picture inscribed in their minds, and not according to nature.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Drawing, Mind, Genuine

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• I've always considered myself a graphic artists - a draftsman - as opposed to a typist. I do still work on a drawing table. At times drawing on a computer feels like I'm drawing on an Etch-a-Sketch.

  Michael Schwab

  Artist, Drawing, Design

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• Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

  Georges Seurat

  Art, Character, Drawing

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• The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Order, Solitude, Mind

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• The great black and white draftsman, the sculptor, and the blind man know that form and color are separate. The form itself is what the blind man knows...Color is surface skin that fits over the form.

  John French Sloan

  Black And White, Men, Color

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• [Bernard Leach] was an incredible draftsman, and at the end of breakfast time, for instance, he would push his plate back, and he'd pull an old scrap of paper out of his pocket and a little stub of a pencil, and he'd begin to make small drawings, about an inch and a half, two inches tall, of pots that he wanted to make. And they were beautiful drawings. I really wish I'd stolen some of those scraps of paper, because those drawings were exquisite explorations of his ideas of form and volume in a ceramic piece.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Beautiful, Ideas, Two

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• You know there's always that kid in your class — and every class has one — the kid who draws all the time and is really good? That was not me. I was a lousy draftsman. But as soon as I figured out that I could make things come alive, like using the corners of my math book to make flipbooks, I was hooked.

  Pete Docter

  Book, Kids, Math

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• I hired Bob at Terrytoons. He was my assistant animator, and then became an animator himself. He had just come from Boston with his family and was a brilliant draftsman as well as a great jazz guitarist. We had lots of fun nights in Greenwich Village together and then later hanging in LA. Bob worked on Fritz the Cat , Heavy Traffic , Coonskin , and on Wizards . I am terribly saddened by his passing and will miss him dearly.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Fun, Cat, Night

  FaceBook post by Ralph Bakshi from Dec 15, 2014

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• When I was there at Marvel, everybody thought if you could draw well and you could do sensational panels, that you were going to be a success. The truth is that no matter how good or bad you are as a draftsman, if you can't tell a story, you don't last in comics. ...About halfway through my stay at Marvel, I realized I was being paid to tell a story, not do a drawing. That's why my stuff is always rather simple and uncomplicated compared to a lot of guys.

  John Romita, Sr.

  Book, Simple, Drawing

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• The Declaration [of Independence] was a committee report, and [Tomas] Jefferson was simply the draftsman. [John] Adams's crucial role in bringing about independence in the Continental Congress has tended to get forgotten.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Independence, Roles, Forgotten

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• I hate to say I'm a photographer, because I learned photography as I went along. But I also hate to say I'm a painter, a draftsman, even an artist. I think it's good when you're confused about what you are; it means you haven't defined yourself as an artist yet.

  Vik Muniz

  Photography, Hate, Confused

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