Drawing Quotes - Page 18

• While drawing grasses I learn nothing 'about' grass, but wake up to the wonder that there is grass at all.

  Frederick Franck

  Wake Up, Wonder, Grass

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• People become discouraged when they listen to their 'inner critic'... Whatever that voice is saying, articulate a response, drawing from the part of you that feels strong and confident. Be your own cheerleader.

  Lauren Mackler

  Courage, Strong, Voice

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• Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

  Rafael Moneo

  Building, Models

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• When I was drawing this, I thought I’d put together Sailor Saturn and Sailor Chibi-Moon in a pair. Then I followed it with the Sailor Quartet. One of these days I’m going to put this team together into the manga. What a weird thing that would be. Anyway, here’s the six.

  Naoko Takeuchi

  Team, Moon, Together

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• The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works and in reality the computer has a lot of influence on design.

  Michael Hansmeyer

  Reality, Design, Vision

  "Sci-fi 'gothic' architecture brought to life" by Laura Allsop, www.cnn.com. April 8, 2011.

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• A drawing of the nude is a most revealing expression because it is at once the most private and the most personal. Often such drawings are made with no thought of public exhibition. They possess the intimacy of diaries.

  Mervyn Levy

  Expression, Diaries, Exhibitions

  Mervyn Levy (1965). “The Artist & the Nude: An Anthology of Drawings”, London : Barrie & Rockliff

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• When caricaturist, Al Hirschfeld, did a drawing of a celebrity, it often looked more like the person than the person did. That's our goal in animation.

  Brad Bird

  Goal, Als, Masters

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• If you look at the success of snowboarding in the Winter Games and how that's brought a more youthful edge to the Olympics in general, they don't have that with the Summer Games. They don't have anything that's drawing in a younger viewership. To be honest, I think they need skateboarding more than we need them. Skateboarding's popularity is solidified for the most part in a lot of countries.

  Tony Hawk

  Summer, Country, Winter

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• I didnt grow up drawing runway models and deciding what they should wear.

  Theophilus London

  Growing Up, Runway, Should

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• The writing for me is hard work and I always look forward to drawing the pictures.

  Marc Brown

  Hard Work, Writing, Looks

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• Planning, evaluation, reasoning and establishing prioritites are all more important than brilliance - either behind the wheel or at the drawing board.

  Carroll Smith

  Important, Wheels, Boards

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• When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.

  Antony Sher

  Writing, People, Acting

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• The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

  Criss Jami

  Artist, People, Watches

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.10, Criss Jami

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• I bet you’re really good with your hands, all that drawing and building.

  Valerie Thomas

  Hands, Building

  Valerie Thomas, Stacy Kramer (2013). “From What I Remember”, p.144, Egmont UK

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• I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since.

  Winston Churchill

  Book, Years, Fine

  Sir Winston Churchill (1951). “A Roving Commission”

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• Women are like that they don't acquire knowledge of people we are for that they are just born with a practical fertility of suspicion that makes a crop every so often and usually right they have an affinity for evil for supplying whatever the evil lacks in itself for drawing it about them instinctively as you do bed-clothing in slumber fertilizing the mind for it until the evil has served its purpose whether it ever existed or no.

  William Faulkner

  Women, People, Evil

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• But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false attribution of a Watteau drawing or an inaccurate transcription of a fourteenth-century epigraph is a sin against the spirit and in the afternoon or evening transmits to the agents of Soviet intelligence classified, perhaps vital information given to him in sworn trust by his countrymen and intimate colleagues. What are the sources of such scission? How does the spirit mask itself?

  George Steiner

  Morning, Men, Thinking

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.191, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of drawing lines.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Lines, Sake, Logic

  "Pearce v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 315 U.S. 543". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 9, 1942.

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• I'm drawing from two generations back how to think about music, how to think about why you travel to make music, what the possible pitfalls of that are for the way your life is structured. The good and bad of all of it get into the mix of what's created, what you're creating.

  Elvis Costello

  Thinking, Two, Creating

  "Elvis Costello: The ESQ&A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2013.

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• I was drawing professionally by the time I was 12. I used to do very detailed sort of photorealistic pen-and-ink work, and I burned out on it around, like, high school. And cartooning really got me back into drawing.

  Dan Povenmire

  School, Ink, Used

  "We Just Keep Trying to Beat Every Show With the Funny Stick Until It's Funny". Interview with Dana Stevens, www.slate.com. June 10, 2015.

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• I started drawing in first grade. Because the kid next to me was drawing, and I remember thinking: I want to be able to do that!

  Dan Povenmire

  Kids, Thinking, Want

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.

  Terry Crews

  Football, Art, Skills

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I like vocal word stuff. But I don't always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It's more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It's closest to the choreography of a bee. You're freer.

  Tom Waits

  Writing, Air, Stuff

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2006.

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• The older I become, the more I realize that drawing is the most important of all the problems of picture-making.

  Joaquin Sorolla

  Important, Problem, Realizing

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• There is something evocative about the idea of destruction. This act of destruction is the expression of an idea... that what we call reality is not real at all. When I draw a head, for example, I immediately feel an urge to destroy it, to erase it, because the drawing only captures an outward appearance, and for me the vital issue is what lies behind the visual form of the head.

  Antoni Tapies

  Real, Lying, Expression

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