Drawing Quotes - Page 14

• Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.

  William Eggleston

  Peculiar, Might, Photographer

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• Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the computer. Code has no drawings of trains carrying a cargo of zeros and ones. Metaphors and similes are wonderful literary devices but they do nothing but obscure the beauty of technology.

  Charles Petzold

  Book, Technology, Illustration

  Charles Petzold (2000). “Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software”, p.4, Microsoft Press

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• In Utero is a testament to the artistic vision of Kurt Cobain. It's kind of a weird record, and it's strangely beautiful at the same time. And if you look at Kurt's paintings and his drawings - he even did a sculpture for me - it's a rising, tortured-spirit person. It's kind of weird. It's done well, but it's like what Dave was saying about having your own sound. Kurt was a great songwriter. He knew he had a good ear for a hook [and was] a great singer, great guitar player, and In Utero is a good representation of what he liked in art and how he expressed himself.

  Krist Novoselic

  Beautiful, Art, Player

  "Dave Grohl And Krist Novoselic Share Memories, Unreleased Tracks From 'In Utero'". "All Songs Considered" with Bob Boilen, Robin Hilton, www.npr.org. September 10, 2013.

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• Life can be a fearful thing. Everyone needs someone drawing alongside, saying “You can do it. Don’t quit.” Everyone needs someone who believes in them. Everyone needs encouragement.

  Dave Earley

  Encouragement, Believe, Needs

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• The interaction between math and physics is a two-way process, with each of the two subjects drawing from and inspiring the other. At different times, one of them may take the lead in developing a particular idea, only to yield to the other subject as focus shifts. But altogether, the two interact in a virtuous circle of mutual influence.

  Edward Frenkel

  Math, Circles, Ideas

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• In drawing attention to the physical characteristics of women leaders, they can be dismissed as either too pretty or too ugly. The net effect is to prevent women's identification with the issues. If the public women is stigmatized as too 'pretty,' she's a threat, a rival--or simply not serious; if derided as too 'ugly,' one risks tarring oneself with the same brush by identifying oneself with her agenda.

  Naomi Wolf

  Issues, Leader, Risk

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• I always start drawing any job by planning out to some degree the locales and trying to nail the characters. If they're existing characters, I'll draw them several times on rough paper just to get a feeling for them. The ideal when you're drawing a comic is to have everything in your head, not to have to refer to notes.

  Dave Gibbons

  Jobs, Character, Feelings

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• Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic.

  Rod Serling

  Becoming, Narcissistic

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• And most of all, it means continually drawing connections among these seemingly disparate struggles—asserting, for instance, that the logic that would cut pensions, food stamps, and health care before increasing taxes on the rich is the same logic that would blast the bedrock of the earth to get the last vapors of gas and the last drops of oil before making the shift to renewable energy.

  Naomi Klein

  Struggle, Mean, Cutting

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Eye, Men, Boys

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• At one point people in al Qaeda were actually drawing monthly paychecks when they were based in Sudan.

  Peter Bergen

  People, Als, Paychecks

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• Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.

  Yukihiro Matsumoto

  Writing, Men, Painting

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• I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic...In the seemingly endless rainy afternoons I took volume after volume from the shelves. I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.

  C. S. Lewis

  Father, Book, Men

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• The tragedy is that many of us are living desperate Christian life. Sunday comes and we get some strength, and then we lose some on Monday; a good deal is gone by Tuesday and we wonder whether we have anything left. On Wednesday it has all gone and then we exist. Or perhaps refreshment comes in some other way, some meeting we attend, some friends we meet. Now that is the old order of things, that is not the new. He puts a well within us. We are not always drawing from somewhere outside. The well, the spring, goes on springing up from within into everlasting life.

  Martyn

  Christian, Monday, Spring

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• I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Character, Years, Two Year Olds

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• I like doing clay work. It's different from drawing on a page because you have something to mold into different shapes. It's quite visual, it's a thing you can hold and feel, and that makes it different from drawing.

  Bonnie Wright

  Clay, Mold, Different

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• I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Mom, Real, Age

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• At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.

  Louis L'Amour

  Curves, Clue, Structure

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• The true American dream not only provides the freedom to use your gifts and talents to achieve your highest goal but also gives you the freedom to fulfill your purpose in life. You are meant to work in ways that suit you, drawing on your natural talents and gifts. This work, when you find it and commit to it - even if only as a hobby - is the key to happiness.

  Dennis Kimbro

  Happiness, Dream, Keys

  Dennis Kimbro (2011). “What Makes the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement”, p.182, Main Street Books

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• She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she had that same diligence in developing her own style as well as perfecting the craft of singing. I don't think that is part of the normal assumption of who sh

  Laura Joplin

  Thinking, Perfect, Singing

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• I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

  Agnes Denes

  Firsts, Mathematics, Form

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the real dilemmas we have in our country and around the world is that what works in politics is organization and conflict. That is, drawing the sharp distinctions. But in real life, what works is networks and cooperation. And we need victories in real life, so we've got to get back to networks and cooperation, not just conflict. But politics has always been about conflict, and in the coverage of politics, information dissemination tends to be organized around conflict as well.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Real, Organization

  "Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P. Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

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• Drawing is the true test of art.

  Horace

  Art, Tests

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• Truly color is vice! Of course, it can be, and has the right to be one of the finest virtues. Controlled by the strong hand and careful guidance of her Master drawing, color is a splendid Mistress, with a mate worthy of herself, her lover, but her Master likewise, the most magnificent Mistress possible, and the result is evident in all the glorious things that spring from their union.

  James Whistler

  Strong, Spring, Hands

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• I remember that at one time I always made a drawing before going to bed!! - Of myself I mean - though I finally destroyed most of them.

  James Whistler

  Mean, Bed, Portraiture

  Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler (1976). “Whistler: The Graphic Work: Amsterdam, Liverpool, London, Venice: An Exhibition Organised by Thos. Agnew & Sons, London, the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, and the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, in Association with the Arts Council of Great Britain, 1976”

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