Drawing Quotes - Page 4

• For some reason, a lot of Hollywood big shots are curious to see how they'd be drawn with bulging eyes and no chin.

  Matt Groening

  Eye, Hollywood, Reason

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• I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to realize as sculpture... And I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.

  Henry Moore

  Ideas, Sculpture, Sometimes

  Henry Moore, Sir Herbert Edward Read (1944). “Henry Moore: sculpture and drawings”

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• It is the bareness of drawing that I like. The act of drawing is what locates, suggests, discovers. At times it seems enough to draw, without the distractions of color and mass. Yet it is an old ambition to make drawing and painting one.

  Philip Guston

  Ambition, Color, Painting

  Magdalena Dabrowski, Philip Guston (1988). “The drawings of Philip Guston”

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• I know I draw without taking my pen off the page. I just keep going, and that my drawings I think of them as scribbles. I don't think they mean anything to anybody except to me, and then at the end of the day, the end of the project, they wheel out these little drawings and they're damn close to what the finished building is and it's the drawing.

  Frank Gehry

  Mean, Thinking, The End Of The Day

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• Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

  Pablo Picasso

  Lasts, Firsts, Facts

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• If you can't draw something, just draw it.

  Dieter Roth

  Draws, Ifs

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• Think of drawing as a way of talking about the things that interest you. Think of those wonderful documents, drawings made on scraps of paper by the lesser Dutch masters while they were wandering around market places and sitting in saloons.

  John French Sloan

  Thinking, Talking, Sitting

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• I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.

  Ben Nicholson

  Thinking, Ideas, Way

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• A drawing should be a verdict on the model. Don't confuse a drawing with a map.

  Robert Henri

  Maps, Should, Models

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Expression, Form, Graphic

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• Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  Art, Sketching, Three

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• I draw like other people bite their nails.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, People, Nails

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• I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen

  Frederick Franck

  Sketching, I Have Learned

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• Drawing is the probity of art. To draw does not mean simply to reproduce contours; drawing does not consist merely of line: drawing is also expression, the inner form, the plane, the modeling. See what remains after that.

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  Art, Mean, Expression

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• The tattoo can only exist as part of the skin, as a drawing always is an incision in the material and therefore cannot be parted from it.

  Antoni Tapies

  Tattoo, Skins, Materials

  "Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003" by Antoni Tapies, Kunsthalle Emden, edited by Achim Sommer, Altana, (p. 27), 2004.

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• Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up.

  Wally Wood

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

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• Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.

  John French Sloan

  Art, Color, Lines

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• A drawing has never killed anyone.

  Charb

  "'Charlie Hebdo' Editor in Chief: 'A Drawing Has Never Killed Anyone'". Interview with Stefan Simons, www.spiegel.de. September 20, 2012.

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• Drawing is like the first kiss. It carries within it the deepest emotion and the challenge of the first step. It is the first cry after birth

  Ala Bashir

  Kissing, Challenges, First Kiss

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• Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

  Mark Twain

  Epic, Silence, Insult

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• An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake.

  Paul Klee

  Moving, Goal, Lines

  Pedagogical Sketchbook ch. 1 (1925)

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• Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.

  Edgar Degas

  Way, Form, Seeing

  Edgar Degas, Jane Kinsman, Michael Pantazzi (2009). “Degas: The Uncontested Master”

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• For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like as much as anything I have ever done. They are invariably without premeditation. I mean not only that I have no plan when I make them, I also have no plan to make them.

  Robert Motherwell

  Mean, Secret, Done

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• Do not draw before you paint, it will restrict your brush.

  Toni Onley

  Paint, Brushes, Draws

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• The profoundest order is revealed in what is most casual.

  Fairfield Porter

  Art, Order, Casual

  Joan Ludman, Fairfield Porter (2001). “Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels”

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