Drawing Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Your eye level is your reference point for drawing the perspective lines. All lines above your eye level will go down to the horizon vanishing point and all lines below your eye level will go up to the horizon vanishing point.

  Robert A. Lovett

  Eye, Perspective, Horizon

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• At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily, first ten, then twelve, and ultimately fourteen hours, performing the same mechanical labour, is to purchase dearly the satisfaction of drawing breath. But this is the fate of millions, and that of millions more is analogous to it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Fate, Years, Age

  "The World as Will and Representation, Volume II (On the Vanity and Suffering of Life)". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer (1819), as translated by R. B. Haldane and J. Kemp in "The World as Will and Idea" (p. 389), 1886.

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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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• Many people say that I don't know how to draw because I don't draw particular forms. When will they understand that execution, drawing and color (in other words, style) must be in harmony with the poem?

  Paul Gauguin

  Color, People, Style

  Letter to Charles Morice, July 1901.

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• I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the inevitability is part of the fun. Whatever the genre happens to be.

  J. J. Abrams

  Fun, Character, Kissing

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

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• The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.

  Samuel Smiles

  Leadership, Character, Men

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.17

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• Iwas a sculptor.Butthat'sreallydrawinga drawing you fall over in the dark, a three-dimensional drawing.

  Al Hirschfeld

  Fall, Dark, Three

  1988 In the NewYork Times, 21 Jun. 85th birthday interview.

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• Line is the most powerful device of drawing.

  John French Sloan

  Powerful, Lines, Devices

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• Whether it is drawing or painting, skilled Artists usually deliver a faster result without jeopardizing the quality, simply because they don't have to waste their time on fixing mistakes.

  Igor Babailov

  Mistake, Artist, Quality

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• Be clear in your mind why learning to draw well is important. Drawing enables you to see in that special, epiphanous way that artists see, no matter what style you use to express your special insight. Your goal in drawing should be to encounter the reality of experience... to see ever more clearly, ever more deeply.

  Betty Edwards

  Artist, Reality, Goal

  Betty Edwards (1999). “The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain”, Tarcher

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• As each new skill is learned, you will merge it with those previously learned until, one day, you are simply drawing - just as, one day, you found yourself simply driving without thinking about how to do it.

  Betty Edwards

  Thinking, Skills, One Day

  Betty Edwards (1989). “Drawing on the right side of the brain: a course in enhancing creativity and artistic confidence”, Jeremy P. Tarcher

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