Drawing Quotes - Page 14

• I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.

  Mike Thompson

  Thinking, People, Luck

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• The one [the logician] studies the science of drawing conclusions, the other [the mathematician] the science which draws necessary conclusions.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Science, Study, Mathematical

  "The Philosophy of Peirce: Selected Writings".

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• Until we can insert a USB into our ear and download our thoughts, drawing remains the best way of getting visual information on to the page. I draw as a collagist, juxtaposing images and styles of mark-making from many sources. The world I draw is the interior landscape of my own personal obsessions and of cultures I have absorbed and adapted, from Latvian folk art to Japanese screens. I lasso thoughts with a pen. I draw a stave church or someone from Hello! magazine not because I want to replicate how they look, but because of the meaning they bring to the work.

  Grayson Perry

  Art, Style, Church

  "Grayson Perry lassos thoughts with a pen" by Grayson Perry, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.

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• The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life.

  Ray Romano

  Humor, Talking, Guy

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• We will be drawing down some troops. If the president wants to try to turn that into the beginning of a success, he actually, I think, has some opportunity.

  Stuart Rothenberg

  Opportunity, Thinking, Trying

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• No doubt exists that rent seeking in general leads to serious inefficiencies in this direct sense, but its indirect damage is even worse. Drawing the bulk of intelligent and energetic people in society into activity that has no social product, or may have a negative social product, is more important in explaining the stagnation of these societies than the direct social cost of the rent seeking.

  Gordon Tullock

  Intelligent, People, Doubt

  Gordon Tullock, Gordon L. Brady, Arthur Seldon (2002). “Government Failure: A Primer in Public Choice”, p.49, Cato Institute

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• Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

  Alison Bechdel

  Writing, Wish, Sometimes

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• I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.

  Alison Bechdel

  Taken, Men, Bored

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• Some sculptors make drawings, I make heads.

  David Altmejd

  Sculptors

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• How dare you little jabroni come onto The Rock shows Smackdown and run your mouth about how your the game, well The Rock says, if you are the game then you quite frankly you need to go back to the drawing board cause your game absolutely sucks!

  Dwayne Johnson

  Funny, Running, Rocks

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• Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.

  Alison Bechdel

  Black And White, Hair, Gray

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• If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you'll probably get the humor in the audio part.

  Kid Koala

  Humor, Audio, Ifs

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• During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and "style" as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older.

  Chris Ware

  Change, School, Texas

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. December 31, 2003.

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• Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books.

  Dick Bruna

  Children, Book, One Day

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• I Never Liked You. I think that's my best book. I think it works the best as a story, and I like the drawing. It works on both levels, for me at least.

  Chester Brown

  Book, Thinking, Stories

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• A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Dust, Two, Silence

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• Man, fountains pen are a pain to use, drawing backgrounds is a also a pain... Drawing manga really is a pain. In short living is a pain... I want to become a cheesburger

  Hideaki Sorachi

  Pain, Men, Use

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• I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affection, feel His invisible and intangible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess an inner consciousness of a particular providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my own destiny.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Believe, Destiny, Hands

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• God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him.

  Meister Eckhart

  Cutting, Knowing Who You Are, Ties

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• When I was a barber, me being extreme was how I got popular: you name it, I was drawing it on someone's head.

  Swizz Beatz

  Names, Barbers, Extremes

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• A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

  Fiona Shaw

  Song, Play, Piano

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

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• I was the kid who was drawing on tables or removing the legs of furniture.

  Ty Pennington

  Kids, Legs, Tables

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

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• I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I carried around in college when I was earnest about drawing. I need to have some idea of the shape of the novel, where its headed, so that I can proceed with confidence. But the truth is my characters start doing and saying things I don't expect.

  Julianna Baggott

  Art, Writing, Character

  "Q&A with Pure Author Julianna Baggott". Interview with Melissa Wiley, geekdad.com. April 4, 2012.

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• Well, I love tattoos and have been drawing them on my binders in school since I was little.

  Kimberly Caldwell

  Tattoo, School, Littles

  "Best Ink" Host and "American Idol" Alum Kimberly Caldwell Talks Tattoos (Q&A)". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 27, 2012.

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• I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Understanding, Trying, Fifty

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