Drawing Quotes - Page 39

• 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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• Bonnat tells me, 'Your painting isn't bad, it is chic, but even so it isn't bad, but your drawing is absolutely atrocious.' So I must gather my courage and start once again.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Painting, Chic

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• If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it.

  Stan Smith

  Finishing, Should, Ifs

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• Spaces between the forms, or the negative shapes, play just as great a role as the positives and they enable you to check the accuracy of your drawing. The positives make the negatives and negatives make the positives.

  Stan Smith

  Negatives Make, Play, Space

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• The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala and metaphysics and the ecstasy of sainthood.

  George Grosz

  Art, Teaching, Engineering

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• An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but everything that happens to me, that I can affect, or that affects me.

  Jacques Derrida

  Self, Portraits, Portraiture

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• Compare constantly, lines and angles... Hold looking-glass before your model and your drawing. Take a second's glance only, and see if the impression be the same. If it be not, ask, 'What is the difference?

  William Morris Hunt

  Differences, Glasses, Lines

  William Morris Hunt (1976). “William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing”, Dover Pubns

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• Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.

  Adam Gopnik

  Player, Risk, Bending

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• Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.

  Adam Gopnik

  Art, Skeletons, Skills

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• Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Wall, Ideas

  "Sol LeWitt by Saul Ostrow". Interview with Saul Ostrow, bombmagazine.org. October 1, 2003.

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• I was always into noir. When I lived in Vermont I was drawing stuff that looked like an amateur doing 'Sin City'. When I first got to New York I was swiftly informed that they only did guys in tights.

  Frank Miller

  New York, Sin City, Cities

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

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• It is the brushwork of the right value and color which should produce the drawing.

  Camille Pissarro

  Color, Should, Produce

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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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• When we use numbers we are using symbols, and it is only when we transfer them to life that they become actualities. The same is true with drawing and painting. They are to be learned, not as rules, but as actualities. Then the rules become appropriate.

  Kimon Nicolaides

  Numbers, Use, Painting

  Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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