Drawing Quotes - Page 18

• Form, color, composition, drawing, are auxiliaries, any one of which... can be dispensed with.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Color, Form, Modernism

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• I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.

  Paul Klee

  Color, Dubious, Use

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.141, Univ of California Press

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• If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Photography, Art, Powerful

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• Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to retain it. He must advance or fall behind. Without practice he will forget; his eye will fail him; and his hand will deny its master.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Fall, Eye, Successful

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• The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for that, you must acquire facility, furnish one's memory to the point of infinitude, and make numerous drawings after the old masters.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Memories, Ideas, Wish

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• The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.

  Alain de Botton

  Drinking, Self, Elements

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• If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it.

  Stan Smith

  Finishing, Should, Ifs

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• Spaces between the forms, or the negative shapes, play just as great a role as the positives and they enable you to check the accuracy of your drawing. The positives make the negatives and negatives make the positives.

  Stan Smith

  Negatives Make, Play, Space

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• The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala and metaphysics and the ecstasy of sainthood.

  George Grosz

  Art, Teaching, Engineering

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• An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but everything that happens to me, that I can affect, or that affects me.

  Jacques Derrida

  Self, Portraits, Portraiture

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• Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.

  Adam Gopnik

  Art, Skeletons, Skills

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• A mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Mistake, Eye, Difficult

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• When we use numbers we are using symbols, and it is only when we transfer them to life that they become actualities. The same is true with drawing and painting. They are to be learned, not as rules, but as actualities. Then the rules become appropriate.

  Kimon Nicolaides

  Numbers, Use, Painting

  Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Some drawings are better than others... Some are utterly spoiled... I keep them all. I find a use sometimes even for the worst drawing... But their chief use is to mortify one's conceit, to show how thoroughly incompetent it is possible to be, and to shame one into better ways.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Failure, Use, Way

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• For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.

  Robert Genn

  Spontaneity, Tyranny, Freshness

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• A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Men, Creating, Giving

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.18, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office.

  Ralph Allen

  Art, Father, Office

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• I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid.

  David Salle

  Kids, Color, Nine

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There was about six months when I was absorbing other stuff and not drawing very much. After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.

  Bryan Lee O'Malley

  Fun, Long, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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