Drawing Quotes

• As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Practice, Perfect

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Inspiring, Photography, Meditation

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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• Everything starts from a dot.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Inspiring, Art, Dots

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• It is not bright colors but good drawing that makes figures beautiful.

  Titian

  Beautiful, Color, Figures

  "The Quotable Artist". Book by Peggy Hadden, p. 32, 2002.

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• Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Color, Feelings, Reason

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• Drawing is the honesty of art.

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  Art, Honesty

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• To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw.

  Andrew Loomis

  Learning, Practice, Draws

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• The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.

  John Tukey

  Data, Unexpected, Diagrams

  John Wilder Tukey (1977). “Exploratory Data Analysis”, Pearson College Division

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• To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.

  Pablo Picasso

  Draws, Knows

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• I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Thinking, Sketching, Sometimes

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent W. van Gogh (1970). “Vincent Van Gogh: Paintings and Drawings : Exhibition”

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• Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.

  Robert Henri

  Lines, Following, Models

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.239, Basic Books

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• Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Thorough Knowledge, Perspective

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.42, GENERAL PRESS

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• In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

  Pablo Picasso

  Sketching, Firsts

  "Picasso and Compan". Book by Gyula Brassaï, 1966.

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• Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

  John W. Gardner

  Life, Wisdom, Art

  "Cracking the Code of Our Physical Universe". Book by Matthew M. Radmanesh (p.269), May, 2006.

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• A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Cobwebs

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• Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.

  Keith Haring

  Art, Men, Magic

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.105, Penguin

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• Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.

  Edgar Degas

  Writing, Artist, Expression

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• A line is a dot that went for a walk.

  Paul Klee

  Inspirational, Art, Dots

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  Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

  John James Audubon

  Not Caring, Hunting, Fishing

  John James Audubon, Christoph Irmscher (1999). “Writings and drawings”

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• You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

  John Singer Sargent

  Curiosity, Sketching, Enough

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• To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Eye, Creative

  Wilhelm Boeck, Jaime Sabartés, Pablo Picasso (1961). “Picasso”, New York : H.N. Abrams

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• I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

  Le Corbusier

  Lying, Talking, Sketching

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• Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

  Salvador Dali

  Cheating, Art, Honesty

  "People" Magazine, September 27, 1976.

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• In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artist, Sketching, Goes On

  Vincent van Gogh, Dorothee Hansen, Lawrence W. Nichols, Judy Sund, Kunsthalle Bremen (2003). “Van Gogh: fields”

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• I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.

  Henry Moore

  Sometimes, Enjoyment, Draws

  Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.196, Univ of California Press

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