Drawing Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.

  Carlos Fuentes

  News, Magazines, Film

  "Carlos Fuentes obituary" by Nick Caistor, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2012.

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• I like that cartoons are now not only animated drawings, they are a way of doing something: 'That song sounds very cartoony', or 'He has a cartoon face'. Like the word 'poetic', which usually means something different than a poem. But most of all cartoons are comforting, that's the real reason I need them.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Song, Real, Mean

  Source: www.newrafael.com

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• But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Paper, Dots, Painting

  Roy Lichtenstein, David Sylvester, Galerie Lawrence Rubin (1997). “Roy Lichtenstein: new paintings”

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• All the drawings and sketches and clothes of Yves Saint Laurent in the '70s were so colorful, so bright.

  Frida Giannini

  Clothes, Saint, Colorful

  "Frida Giannini: A Fashionable Life". Interview with Anamaria Wilson, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 14, 2011.

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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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• Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists.

  Adrian McKinty

  Australia, Novelists, Noir

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• It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.

  Jim Hodges

  Relationship, Hands, Collaboration

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• I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Kids, Superhero

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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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• Even the National Bank of Romania doesn't have the huge resources needed to intervene in the market and keep the leu at an acceptable level, because they're drawing close to a floor below which the bank's reserves can't drop. The central bank has to wait for a moment of calm to efficiently conduct its interventions.

  Traian Basescu

  Waiting, Levels, Calm

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• Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.

  Anne Carson

  Writing, Scary, Done

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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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• The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawing. And then eventually it ends up at auction. And then critics say, 'Oh, that's a bad drawing!' Well, I didn't say it was so wonderful.

  Marlene Dumas

  Giving, Auctions, Littles

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• When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.

  Sergio Aragones

  Stories, Daydreaming, More Time

  Q&As, sergioaragones.com.

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• Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly prevailed in this country, of never submitting to the eye of the student, the figures on whose properties he is reasoning, but of drawing perspective representations of them upon a plane. ...I hope that I shall never be obliged to have recourse to a perspective drawing of any figure whose parts are not in the same plane.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Country, Eye, Science

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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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• In pre-school, I was drawing dinosaurs - I was huge into dinosaurs. I wanted to be a paleontologist, not a cartoonist or a filmmaker or anything like that - just a paleontologist. So I would draw dinosaurs.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  School, Dinosaurs, Filmmaker

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• You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

  Zack Snyder

  Art, Real, Difficult

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. August 01, 2007.

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• One thing I do personally started 20 years ago. I started meditating, and I know twice a day I can kind of let everything drop. It's just about being quiet, like drawing back the day, and it allows me to have energy.

  Hugh Jackman

  Years, Energy, Quiet

  FaceBook post by Hugh Jackman from Sep 04, 2013

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• I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.

  Jasper Johns

  Love Drawings, Enjoyed

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• The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.

  Gerald Caiafa

  Dream, Song, Rock And Roll

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• I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

  Sigmar Polke

  Photography, Art, Children

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• Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm not sure what will come out.

  Sigmar Polke

  Sketchbooks, Not Sure, Experiments

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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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