Drawing Quotes - Page 38

• I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Sadness, People, Sorrow

  Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

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• By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.

  Norman McLaren

  Two, Patterns, Film

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• There's the artist's intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn]. Picasso drawings are like that... the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.

  John Berger

  Artist, Intimacy, Vans

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• I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase. For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.

  John Berger

  White, Use, Paper

  "The Intimate Idealogue". Interview with Robert Enright, bordercrossingsmag.com. April 1995.

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• Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent--science, mathematics, energy, history, experience--and the more experience you have, the less likely are your experiments to end in drivel and disaster. The more you know, the more you can create.

  Julia Child

  Creativity, Creative, Cooking

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• Draw, draw, hundreds of drawings. Try to remain humble. Smartness kills everything.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Humble, Trying, Draws

  Sherwood Anderson (1977). “The Portable Sherwood Anderson”, Viking Press

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• We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music.

  David Hockney

  Artist, Needs, Kind

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• Dawn is about luminosity and so is the iPhone... The little drawings of the dawn are done while I'm still in bed... If you're in my kind of business you'd be a fool to sleep through that... Artists can't work office hours, can they?

  David Hockney

  Sleep, Artist, Iphone

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• Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about... I understand what he was doing: discovering what's there... to make the line meaningful, to find a linear solution.

  David Hockney

  Meaningful, Lovely, Tears

  "David Hockney". Book by Marco Livingstone, 1976.

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• I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more.

  David Hockney

  Silence, Lines, Noise

  David Hockney (1977). “David Hockney”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• I thought the iPhone was great, but this takes it to a new level - simply because it's eight times the size of the iPhone, as big as a reasonably-sized sketchbook... Anyone who likes drawing and mark-making will like to explore new media.

  David Hockney

  Technology, Media, Iphone

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• Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds actually wasn't meant to say LSD It was a drawing that John's son brought home from school Lucy was a kid in his school.

  Paul McCartney

  Home, School, Kids

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• Has your drawing the meaning you saw in the model at first?

  Robert Henri

  Saws, Firsts, Models

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.239, Basic Books

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• If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.

  Robert Henri

  School, Thinking, Looks

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Knights, Undisciplined, Courses

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• Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.

  Paul Cezanne

  Mean, Giving, Perception

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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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• From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than the painter himself, probably, could produce. And we accordingly often find that the finished work disappoints the expectation that was raised from the sketch.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Character, Ideas, Imagination

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1824). “The Complete Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: First President of the Royal Academy : with an Original Memoir, and Anecdotes of the Author”, p.217

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• The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of, and feeling toward, women and Negroes, we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Women, Personality, Feelings

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• Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Color, Law, Principles

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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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• When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find done by the hand of great masters.

  Cennino Cennini

  Pain, Hands, Copying

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• If the air is jam-full of sounds which we tune in with, why should it not also be full of feels and smells and things seen through the spirit, drawing particles from us to them and them to us like magnets?

  Emily Carr

  Air, Smell, Sound

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.293, D & M Publishers

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

  Harold Rosenberg

  Color, Form, Modernism

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