Drawing Quotes - Page 28

• To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

  Jasper Johns

  Mean, Painting, Polished

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• To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

  Pablo Picasso

  Ideas, Pages, Blank

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• Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Roots, Profit, Time Spent

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• Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Two, Insecurity, Lines

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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 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 don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand.

  Dieter Rams

  Hands, Computer, Stills

  "Dieter Rams at home, 2004" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. September 29, 2010.

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• Knowledge itself is a neutral tool that can be used for good or evil. Wisdom, in contrast, always directs us toward happiness. The task of education must be to stimulate and unleash the wisdom that lies dormant in the lives of all young people. This is not a forced process, like pressing something into a preformed mold, but rather drawing out the potential which exists within.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Lying, People, Evil

  Daisaku Ikeda (2010). “Soka Education: For the Happiness of the Individual”, p.151, Middleway Press

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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it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.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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• The experienced illustrator subscribes to the principle of the application of the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. Should inspiration whisk down your chimney, be at your table. The first ten thousand drawings are the hardest. Put another way, you have ten thousand bad drawings within and should expel them as quickly as possible.

  Wallace Tripp

  Inspiration, Principles, Tables

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• Prayer is the breath of the new man, drawing in the air of mercy in petitions, and returning it in praises; it proves and maintains the spiritual life.

  Matthew Henry

  Spiritual, Prayer, Men

  Matthew Henry (2011). “Matthew Henry Study Bible - KJV edition”, Importantia Publishing

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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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• Drawing is the most direct and personal kind of graphic expression. Unlike painting, it doesn't forgive. You put down your black line, and there it is - as inevitable as death.

  Tomi Ungerer

  Expression, Black, Forgiving

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• I have a lot of friends and family that have suffered because of the church's judgment; my best friend in the world is gay. I felt a lot of people around me drawing lines in the sand, and that year I decided: I don't want to draw lines and have to be on one side or the other, but if someone's going to push me to one or the other side of the line, I'm going to stand on the side of those being judged because that's where I feel Jesus meets people.

  Derek Webb

  Jesus, Gay, Years

  "Just Follow Jesus: Interview with Christian Singer Derek Webb". Interview with Chris Stedman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 26, 2010.

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• I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.' And I was about five!

  Sally Hawkins

  Dad, Writing, Giving

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• DMT was a gaseous wax that you could smoke that gave you a 20-minute psychedelic high. You'd inhale it. And then when you'd exhale—poof, you'd be high. I saw Buddha, man. I know that sounds like no big deal. But I saw a gigantic holographic Buddha — correct in every way! Buddhas can be very intricate — these drawings that you see in books. Thousands of details were included in this Buddha. Where did they come from? I didn't make them up. I can't even draw, you know? I could barely spell cat, you know? And there it was. And I thought, Wow — the power of the mind, you know?

  Iggy Pop

  Book, Cat, Men

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• Few people know that I am also an artist; I truly enjoy sketching and drawing.

  Sonakshi Sinha

  Artist, People, Sketching

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• I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano.

  Peter Lawford

  Nice, Boys, Piano

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• I always had a sketchbook with me when I was young. I was hiding behind it, basically, hiding behind drawing because I couldn't cope with people in real life; I was very shy and very nervous around people.

  Robert Crumb

  Real, People, Shy

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• I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

  Zoey Deutch

  Writing, Way, Kind

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• Symmetria by the Uccello Project is a gorgeous, instrumental and largely unclassifiable record. Best thought of as 'cinematic', each of the tracks conjures up a range of emotions and images, taking the listener on a beautiful journey. The layers of basses, guitars and percussion ebb and flow, drawing on jazz, folk, blues and African music, blending all the elements into one lovely album. Recommended.

  Steve Lawson

  Beautiful, Journey, Guitar

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• I am only a little pencil in the hand of our Lord. He may cut or sharpen the pencil. He may write or draw whatever and whenever he wants. If the writing or drawing is good, we do not honor the pencil or the material that is used, but rather the one who used it.

  Mother Teresa

  Writing, Cutting, Hands

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• But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Strong, Science

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.203

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• The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Art, Sketching, Firsts

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• Draw lines - draw a lot of lines

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  Sketching, Lines, Draws

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