Drawing Quotes - Page 7

• Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing.

  Jim Davis

  Commit

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• It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.

  Henri Rousseau

  Art, Hands, Ends

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• In the end, worship can never be a performance, something you're pretending or putting on. It's got to be an overflow of your heart...Worship is about getting personal with God, drawing close to God.

  Matt Redman

  God, Christian, Religious

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• The first ten thousand drawings are the hardest. Put another way, you have ten thousand bad drawings within and should expel them as quickly as possible.

  Wallace Tripp

  Way, Firsts, Should

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• You can never do too much drawing.

  Tintoretto

  Sketching, Too Much

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• What can make your work interesting is as much who you are, as how you draw.

  John Howe

  Interesting, Draws, Who You Are

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• I became a writer through drawing first and then a comic book obsession - Marvel Comics, in particular. I invented a world of superheroes starting in third grade with my classmate, Wai-Kwan Wong. In a classroom of forty kids, let's just say there was a lot of undirected time. But this was good because I was a dreamy boy.

  Adam Ross

  Book, Kids, Boys

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• Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a young beginning artist, no doubt they crop up again and again.

  Elaine de Kooning

  Children, Artist, Ideas

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• Try to distill the character of your subject. Understand how he moves, thinks, acts. It's difficult to put into words. Consider each drawing as a problem that did not exist before, and then try to solve that problem to the best of your ability. That i what caricature is all about

  Al Hirschfeld

  Moving, Character, Thinking

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• Even when you paint, you never stop drawing.

  Igor Babailov

  Paint

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• I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing.

  John Ruskin

  Believe, Sight, Important

  John Ruskin (2012). “The Elements of Drawing”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• Doing fashion drawings was the only way I had to express myself when I was a teenager.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Fashion, Teenager, Way

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• The architect must not only understand drawing, but music.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Architecture, Architect

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• To be sociable, I puffed on a marijuana cigarette, but I didn't inhale...I just hate the idea of drawing smoke into my lungs.

  Tony Abbott

  Hate, Marijuana, Ideas

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• By the time the child can draw more that scribble, by the age of four or five years, an already well-formed body of conceptual knowledge formulated in language dominates his memory and controls his graphic work. Drawings are graphic accounts of essentially verbal processes. As an essentially verbal education gains control, the child abandons his graphic efforts and relies almost entirely on words. Language has first spoilt drawing and then swallowed it up completely.

  Karl Buhler

  Children, Memories, Years

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• "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences."

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Friendship, Failure, Failing

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.107, GENERAL PRESS

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• Drawing prayer circles isn’t about proving yourself to God; it’s about giving God an opportunity to prove Himself to you. Just in case you have forgotten — and to ensure that you always remember — God is for you. I can’t promise that God will always give you the answer you want. I can’t promise that He’ll answer on your timeline. But I can promise this: He answers every prayer, and He keeps every promise. That is who He is. That is what He does.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Opportunity, Circles

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• Nothing seems real anymore. Even the flames from the fire seem to beckon to me, drawing me into some great past life buried somewhere deep in my subconscious, if only I could find the key..if only..if only. Ever since my illness, my condition, I've been trying to find some logical way of passing my time, of justifying a means to an end.

  Ian Curtis

  Real, Mean, Past

  Ian Curtis (2014). “So This is Permanence: Joy Division Lyrics and Notebooks”, p.24, Faber & Faber

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• We should lay up in our minds a store of goodly thoughts which will be a living treasure of knowledge always with us, and from which, at various times, and amidst all the shiftings of circumstances, we might be sure of drawing some comfort, guidance and sympathy.

  Arthur Helps

  Life, Knowledge, Mind

  Arthur Helps (1873). “Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon”, p.204

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• Yes, you can get a man to do just about anything, and you know it. So, what are you going to attract him into doing? Buying you a nice house? Giving you the space to guide your own life? Or, offering his deepest gifts to you and all beings while opening his heart to God?
  Are you a selfish witch, a self-sufficient witch, or a witch for the sake of drawing your man and all beings open as a gift for all?

  David Deida

  Love, Selfish, Nice

  David Deida (2009). “Dear Lover: A Woman's Guide to Men, Sex, and Love's Deepest Bliss: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.143, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Remind me," he paused, drawing in a stuttered gasp, "to never piss you off again. Christ, are you secretly a ninja?

  J. Lynn

  Funny, Ninja, Christ

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• Our current use of time is not rational. There is therefore no point in seeking marginal improvements in how we spend our time. We need to go back to the drawing board and overturn all our assumptions about time.

  Richard Koch

  Boards, Needs, Use

  Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle”, p.132, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• I dont play any two suited cards. I play any two non-suited cards. That way I am drawing at two different flushes.

  Amarillo Slim

  Play, Two, Different

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• Art is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making.

  Stephen Metcalf

  Art, Confused, Skills

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• I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.

  Kate Greenaway

  Hate, Long, Done

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