Drawing Quotes - Page 4

• The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.

  John French Sloan

  Art, Important, Graduates

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• I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to realize as sculpture... And I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.

  Henry Moore

  Ideas, Sculpture, Sometimes

  Henry Moore, Sir Herbert Edward Read (1944). “Henry Moore: sculpture and drawings”

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• It is the bareness of drawing that I like. The act of drawing is what locates, suggests, discovers. At times it seems enough to draw, without the distractions of color and mass. Yet it is an old ambition to make drawing and painting one.

  Philip Guston

  Ambition, Color, Painting

  Magdalena Dabrowski, Philip Guston (1988). “The drawings of Philip Guston”

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• Drawing is the skeleton of what you do and color is its flesh.

  Nicolas Poussin

  Skeletons, Color, Flesh

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• Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

  Pablo Picasso

  Lasts, Firsts, Facts

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• If you can't draw something, just draw it.

  Dieter Roth

  Draws, Ifs

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• Think of drawing as a way of talking about the things that interest you. Think of those wonderful documents, drawings made on scraps of paper by the lesser Dutch masters while they were wandering around market places and sitting in saloons.

  John French Sloan

  Thinking, Talking, Sitting

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• A drawing should be a verdict on the model. Don't confuse a drawing with a map.

  Robert Henri

  Maps, Should, Models

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

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• I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.

  Ben Nicholson

  Thinking, Ideas, Way

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• Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Expression, Form, Graphic

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• Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  Art, Sketching, Three

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• I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen

  Frederick Franck

  Sketching, I Have Learned

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• Drawing is the probity of art. To draw does not mean simply to reproduce contours; drawing does not consist merely of line: drawing is also expression, the inner form, the plane, the modeling. See what remains after that.

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  Art, Mean, Expression

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• The tattoo can only exist as part of the skin, as a drawing always is an incision in the material and therefore cannot be parted from it.

  Antoni Tapies

  Tattoo, Skins, Materials

  "Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003" by Antoni Tapies, Kunsthalle Emden, edited by Achim Sommer, Altana, (p. 27), 2004.

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• I draw like other people bite their nails.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, People, Nails

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• Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up.

  Wally Wood

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

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• Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.

  John French Sloan

  Art, Color, Lines

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• A drawing has never killed anyone.

  Charb

  "'Charlie Hebdo' Editor in Chief: 'A Drawing Has Never Killed Anyone'". Interview with Stefan Simons, www.spiegel.de. September 20, 2012.

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• Drawing is like the first kiss. It carries within it the deepest emotion and the challenge of the first step. It is the first cry after birth

  Ala Bashir

  Kissing, Challenges, First Kiss

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• Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

  Mark Twain

  Epic, Silence, Insult

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• Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design.

  Sergio Aragones

  Character, Design, Sometimes

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• I never draw except with brush and paint.

  Claude Monet

  Paint, Brushes, Draws

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• I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing parts of the tapestry that needed to be re-woven. My ability to draw made me indispensable to my parents.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Girl, Parent, Missing

  "Louise Bourgeois: a web of emotions" by Adrian Searle, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2010.

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• No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of paper and a pencil or paints.

  John Newman

  Jobs, Long, Pieces

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• Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines.

  E. J. Hughes

  Watches, Lines, Shoulders

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