Drawing Quotes - Page 19

• My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.

  Theodore Robinson

  Painting, Negation, Values

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• Your eye level is your reference point for drawing the perspective lines. All lines above your eye level will go down to the horizon vanishing point and all lines below your eye level will go up to the horizon vanishing point.

  Robert A. Lovett

  Eye, Perspective, Horizon

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• At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily, first ten, then twelve, and ultimately fourteen hours, performing the same mechanical labour, is to purchase dearly the satisfaction of drawing breath. But this is the fate of millions, and that of millions more is analogous to it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Fate, Years, Age

  "The World as Will and Representation, Volume II (On the Vanity and Suffering of Life)". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer (1819), as translated by R. B. Haldane and J. Kemp in "The World as Will and Idea" (p. 389), 1886.

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• Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.

  O. Henry

  Art, Writing, Stories

  O. Henry (2015). “O. Henry's stories: Short Stories and Classic Literature”, p.429, 谷月社

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• There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Art

  Margaret Atwood (2014). “The MaddAddam Trilogy Bundle: The Year of the Flood; Oryx & Crake; MaddAddam”, p.526, Anchor

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• The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved. The only alteration they are likely to desire in the status quo is an increase of bureaucracy and the power of bureaucrats.

  Bertrand Russell

  Differences, Long, Desire

  "Sceptical Essays". Book by Bertrand Russell. Chapter 12: "Free Thought and Official Propaganda", 1928.

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• Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing.

  George Meredith

  Struggle, Men, Reflection

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.4327, Library of Alexandria

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• Many people say that I don't know how to draw because I don't draw particular forms. When will they understand that execution, drawing and color (in other words, style) must be in harmony with the poem?

  Paul Gauguin

  Color, People, Style

  Letter to Charles Morice, July 1901.

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• I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the inevitability is part of the fun. Whatever the genre happens to be.

  J. J. Abrams

  Fun, Character, Kissing

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

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• Iwas a sculptor.Butthat'sreallydrawinga drawing you fall over in the dark, a three-dimensional drawing.

  Al Hirschfeld

  Fall, Dark, Three

  1988 In the NewYork Times, 21 Jun. 85th birthday interview.

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• The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.

  Samuel Smiles

  Leadership, Character, Men

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.17

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• The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.

  Wilfred Owen

  Girl, Flower, Mind

  "Anthem for Doomed Youth" l. 12 (written 1917)

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• Another thing that you really do when you play, that you're supposed to do, is colors. You know, you cannot play with one color. If you play with one color, again, it's like watching a beautiful painting, a drawing, but it's all in blue or it's all in red. May be very nice, but not very interesting.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Beautiful, Nice, Blue

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Whether it is drawing or painting, skilled Artists usually deliver a faster result without jeopardizing the quality, simply because they don't have to waste their time on fixing mistakes.

  Igor Babailov

  Mistake, Artist, Quality

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• Cursed in earth and subdued by death, man found himself beset by time, and his instincts put to the test. Only then, he realized that with love he could survive, and that for a certain purpose he would toil. For those whom my love can not immune from death, are dedicated these paintings, in the hope they may express in drawing the reality of a resonant mind.

  Ala Bashir

  Reality, Men, Survival

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• In early childhood, children develop a set of symbols that 'stand for' things they see in the world around them... Children are happy with symbolic drawing until about the age of eight or nine... when children develop a passion for realism. Our schools do not provide drawing instruction. Children try on their own to discover the secrets of realistic drawing, but nearly always fail and, sadly, give up on trying.

  Betty Edwards

  Children, Giving Up, Passion

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• Be clear in your mind why learning to draw well is important. Drawing enables you to see in that special, epiphanous way that artists see, no matter what style you use to express your special insight. Your goal in drawing should be to encounter the reality of experience... to see ever more clearly, ever more deeply.

  Betty Edwards

  Artist, Reality, Goal

  Betty Edwards (1999). “The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain”, Tarcher

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• As each new skill is learned, you will merge it with those previously learned until, one day, you are simply drawing - just as, one day, you found yourself simply driving without thinking about how to do it.

  Betty Edwards

  Thinking, Skills, One Day

  Betty Edwards (1989). “Drawing on the right side of the brain: a course in enhancing creativity and artistic confidence”, Jeremy P. Tarcher

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• It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I was once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous influence; that I've been told I was on the verge of insanity, that my painting was nothing but meaningless daubs. Lawren Harris, the man most responsible for drawing the Group of Seven together, was accused of something perilously close to treason - his paintings, said his severest critics, were discouraging immigration.

  A. Y. Jackson

  Men, Insanity, Criticism

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• Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. Painting without drawing is just 'coloriness,' color excitement. To think of color for color's sake is like thinking of sound for sound's sake. Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

  John French Sloan

  Mean, Thinking, Color

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• Drawing and composition are the same thing.

  John French Sloan

  Composition

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• Always think of drawing, getting the forms realized, emphasizing the design.

  John French Sloan

  Thinking, Design, Form

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• Line is the most powerful device of drawing.

  John French Sloan

  Powerful, Lines, Devices

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• Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.

  John French Sloan

  Mean, Color, Painting

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• The artist does not see both eyes alike. There is always 'the eye' and the other eye... It adds life and plasticity to the drawing if the eye in the light is darker than the one in the shadow. It gives the head vividness.

  John French Sloan

  Eye, Artist, Light

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