Drawing Quotes - Page 34

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

  Jasper Johns

  Love Drawings, Enjoyed

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• You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever.

  Shooter Jennings

  Art, Piano, Forever

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• I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.

  Zayn Malik

  Games, Play, Bored

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.

  Bruce Nauman

  Thinking, Trying, Sculpture

  "'Setting a Good Corner'". Art21 Interview, art21.org. September 2001.

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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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• You are not to think of painting as something separate from drawing.

  Kimon Nicolaides

  Thinking, Painting

  Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.213, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel.

  Sigmar Polke

  Children

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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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• I was the kid who was drawing on tables or removing the legs of furniture.

  Ty Pennington

  Kids, Legs, Tables

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

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• I think when you're an actor and you're drawing on your emotions all the time, you need to be quite steady.

  Kelly Reilly

  Thinking, Needs, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I got into animals by drawing hair follicles. I liked drawing hair, and from that I got into feathers and fur, then into images of animals. The patterning is the same, but the proportions of the body change from one animal to the next. A lot of it is just geometry and consciousness.

  Kiki Smith

  Animal, Hair, Fur

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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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• Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.

  Graeme Le Saux

  People, Natural, Ends

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• We connect the dots in the drawing with our mind. We give them a meaning, a figurative sense, which is self-reflexive in that it creates us, because we are the experiencer of the moment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Self, Giving

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• Walk in nature. Take the time to be still. Practicing arts, arranging flowers, doing some drawing, working on a computer, brings a sense of stillness into your life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Art, Flower

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• You'll notice all around the Hindu temples couples, statues and drawings, in various erotic forms of love-making. This used to give the British a lot of trouble because they were kind of white and uptight. It didn't quite fit. How could a temple of God be covered with pictures of people, in their term, fornicating?

  Frederick Lenz

  Couple, Buddhism, White

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• People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.

  Gary Larson

  Silly, Ideas, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• Above and beyond drawing my creations, I try to incorporate some kind of message. I try not to end as merely a question but try to provide a conclusion within the work.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Trying, Messages, Kind

  "Something About Shojo". Interview with Coco Masters, content.time.com. August 10, 2006.

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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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• Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read.

  Chris Ware

  Real, Cartoon

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• Drawing on a computer doesn't make any sense to me. It's not intuitive.

  Chris Ware

  Computer, Intuitive

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• It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.

  Jim Woodring

  Stories, Pantomime

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