Drawing Quotes - Page 12

• I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

  Billy Childish

  Art, Book, Would Be

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• Well, I love tattoos and have been drawing them on my binders in school since I was little.

  Kimberly Caldwell

  Tattoo, School, Littles

  "Best Ink" Host and "American Idol" Alum Kimberly Caldwell Talks Tattoos (Q&A)". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 27, 2012.

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• The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawing. And then eventually it ends up at auction. And then critics say, 'Oh, that's a bad drawing!' Well, I didn't say it was so wonderful.

  Marlene Dumas

  Giving, Auctions, Littles

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• All the drawings and sketches and clothes of Yves Saint Laurent in the '70s were so colorful, so bright.

  Frida Giannini

  Clothes, Saint, Colorful

  "Frida Giannini: A Fashionable Life". Interview with Anamaria Wilson, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 14, 2011.

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• The comics were not only stories to enjoy for me they were drawings that possessed me.

  Jean Giraud

  Stories, Enjoy, Possessed

  "Moebius on his art, fading eyesight and legend: ‘I am like a unicorn’". Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 2, 2011.

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• I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Understanding, Trying, Fifty

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• 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

  Stories, Daydreaming, More Time

  Q&As, sergioaragones.com.

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• The most distinguishing element of my novels is that I try as hard as I can - within the context of a popular commercial thriller - to make them feel authentic. Drawing on real locations and real events is part of that authenticity.

  Alex Berenson

  Real, Trying, Events

  "Fact and Fiction in The Shadow Patrol". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. April 10, 2012.

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• Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly prevailed in this country, of never submitting to the eye of the student, the figures on whose properties he is reasoning, but of drawing perspective representations of them upon a plane. ...I hope that I shall never be obliged to have recourse to a perspective drawing of any figure whose parts are not in the same plane.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Country, Eye, Science

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• God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him.

  Meister Eckhart

  Cutting, Knowing Who You Are, Ties

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• I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

  Danny Huston

  Passionate, Pads, Painting

  "Danny Huston Does The Boogie Woogie". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. April 21, 2010.

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• I had TB as a child. So I was put to doing things like drawing and reading. And I was raised in a family where manners were important. Maybe that's why I seem so refined.

  Katherine Helmond

  Children, Reading, Important

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

  Taylor Hackford

  Jobs, Giving, Directors

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Paul Ince

  Games, Millionaire, Retiring

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• One thing I do personally started 20 years ago. I started meditating, and I know twice a day I can kind of let everything drop. It's just about being quiet, like drawing back the day, and it allows me to have energy.

  Hugh Jackman

  Years, Energy, Quiet

  FaceBook post by Hugh Jackman from Sep 04, 2013

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• I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.

  Jasper Johns

  Love Drawings, Enjoyed

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• You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever.

  Shooter Jennings

  Art, Piano, Forever

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• I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.

  Zayn Malik

  Games, Play, Bored

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.

  Bruce Nauman

  Thinking, Trying, Sculpture

  "'Setting a Good Corner'". Art21 Interview, art21.org. September 2001.

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• 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.

  Gerald Caiafa

  Dream, Song, Rock And Roll

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• As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel.

  Sigmar Polke

  Children

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• I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

  Sigmar Polke

  Photography, Art, Children

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• Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm not sure what will come out.

  Sigmar Polke

  Sketchbooks, Not Sure, Experiments

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• I was the kid who was drawing on tables or removing the legs of furniture.

  Ty Pennington

  Kids, Legs, Tables

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think when you're an actor and you're drawing on your emotions all the time, you need to be quite steady.

  Kelly Reilly

  Thinking, Needs, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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