Drawing Quotes - Page 8

• When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged. I love trying to render not just the object, but what it has been through.

  Alan Lee

  Tree, Tears, Trying

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• I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right.

  Alan Lee

  Rocks, Rivers, Tree

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• To draw a tree, to pay such close attention to every aspect of a tree, is an act of reverence not only toward the tree, and toward the earth itself, but also our human connection to it. This is one of the magical things about drawing - it gives us almost visionary moments of connectedness.

  Alan Lee

  Giving, Tree, Connections

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

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• In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was before TV - and Superman movies. We even visualized Superman billboards. And it's all come true.

  Joe Shuster

  Running, Games, Imagination

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• Here on the drawing board fingers and noses leak from the air brush maggots lie under if i should die before if i should die in the back room stacked up in smooth boxes like soapflakes or tunafish wait the undreamt of.

  Maxine Kumin

  Dream, Lying, Air

  Maxine Kumin (1970). “The nightmare factory”

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• Drawing on President Bush's reform plan, which would allow citizens to transfer part of their Social Security contributions into personal accounts, an alteration of the current system is needed to make necessary change.

  Jim Leach

  President, Reform, Necessary Change

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• Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Land, Soldier, Citizens

  'Dreamers' (1918)

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• The fatal hour of this ancient game is approaching. In its modern form this game will soon die a drawing death - the inevitable victory of certainty and mechanization will leave its stamp on the fate of chess.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Fate, Games, Victory

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• Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits.

  Tony Snow

  Girl, Baby, Receiving

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• The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Two, Design, Important

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• What is the shape of space? Is it flat, or is it bent? Is it nicely laid out, or is it warped and shrunken? Is it finite, or is it infinite? Which of the following does space resemble more: (a) a sheet of paper, (b) an endless desert, (c) a soap bubble, (d) a doughnut, (e) an Escher drawing, (f) an ice cream cone, (g) the branches of a tree, or (h) a human body?

  Rudy Rucker

  Science, Space, Ice Cream

  Rudy von Bitter Rucker, Rudy Rucker (1985). “The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A journal is more than a memory goad. It's therapeutic. The simple act of opening a notebook to put words down stills the crosscurrents of worry, drawing to focus the essential though patterms that best defines us, intersecting those thoughts with the condition of our life at that exact moment. A journal is one of the few anchors the human condition allows us.

  Randy Wayne White

  Notebook, Memories, Simple

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• There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed. I do not suppose that these pianos are, in fact, as a rule, louder and harsher, more violent and less musical, than other instruments of the kind. They seem to be so, but that, I take it, arises from the exceptional mental depression of those who have to listen to them.

  Anthony Trollope

  Music, Piano, Rooms

  Anthony Trollope (1862). “North America”, p.23

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• I learnt earlier on that If you can run one company.You can really run any company.A company is all about finding the right people and inspiring those people,drawing out the best in people

  Richard Branson

  Running, People, Company

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• There are many nations that have perfected a particular room. You know, you have the French drawing-room, the Austrian ball room, the German dining room, and I think the library is a room the English get right.

  Julian Fellowes

  Thinking, Library, Dining

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• Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.

  Paul Strand

  Order, Oil, Important

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• My aim in life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life... looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking, 'Oh, the pictures I might have made!'

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Regret, Thinking, Might

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2172, Delphi Classics

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• Just draw 'cause you love it, you know, I think that's why you should be doing it. You should always be doing art for the right reasons, um, and with the best intentions. Anything at all is completely possible and I think that's what I like about drawing. I think it's just really fun. You can do anything you want. And that's part of, like, what's really enjoyable about it... is kind of losing yourself in it.

  Gerard Way

  Art, Fun, Thinking

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• To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

  Jasper Johns

  Mean, Painting, Polished

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• To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

  Pablo Picasso

  Ideas, Pages, Blank

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• Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Roots, Profit, Time Spent

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• Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Two, Insecurity, Lines

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• I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand.

  Dieter Rams

  Hands, Computer, Stills

  "Dieter Rams at home, 2004" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. September 29, 2010.

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• Knowledge itself is a neutral tool that can be used for good or evil. Wisdom, in contrast, always directs us toward happiness. The task of education must be to stimulate and unleash the wisdom that lies dormant in the lives of all young people. This is not a forced process, like pressing something into a preformed mold, but rather drawing out the potential which exists within.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Lying, People, Evil

  Daisaku Ikeda (2010). “Soka Education: For the Happiness of the Individual”, p.151, Middleway Press

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• The experienced illustrator subscribes to the principle of the application of the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. Should inspiration whisk down your chimney, be at your table. 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

  Inspiration, Principles, Tables

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