Drawing Quotes - Page 6

• I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.

  Henry Moore

  Sometimes, Enjoyment, Draws

  Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.196, Univ of California Press

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• Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Funny Friend, Lines

  "The Golden Book" Magazine, Vol. 7, (p. 323), 1928.

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• I have a personal definition of cartooning, which is, simply, "imaginative drawing." Anything you're drawing that is not in front of you but is a mental construct that you want to express in a drawing is, to me, a cartoon.

  Jim Woodring

  Cartoon, Definitions, Want

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com.

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• I grew up with a pencil. A pencil was my computer at the time and so drawing, drawing, drawing and the tools of drawing where the usual ones and eventually then you graduated from the tools when the work increases and you start to draw by freehand as precise as possible and as accurate as possible, and I was pretty good at that.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Usual, Tools, Computer

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

  Camille Pissarro

  Art, Character, Sketching

  Camille Pissarro, John Rewald (1963). “Camille Pissarro”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.

  Matt Smith

  Color, Design, Painting

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• I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

  Le Corbusier

  Lying, Talking, Sketching

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• For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.

  Helmut Jahn

  Thinking, Vices, Vice Versa

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• In my work I've never done preliminary drawing, because it's sometimes difficult to repeat something or to continue when the urgency's gone.

  Deanna Petherbridge

  Done, Gone, Sometimes

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• I work on drawing as a final product.

  Deanna Petherbridge

  Finals, Products

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• It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing.

  Deanna Petherbridge

  Art, Sleep, Writing

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• You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.

  Richard MacDonald

  Illustration

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• To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Eye, Creative

  Wilhelm Boeck, Jaime Sabartés, Pablo Picasso (1961). “Picasso”, New York : H.N. Abrams

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• I draw manga, therefore I am!

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Art, Painter, Draws

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• You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

  John Singer Sargent

  Curiosity, Sketching, Enough

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• One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

  Balthus

  Eye, Sketching, Draws

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• Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.

  Adam Gopnik

  Shapes, Shade, Conventions

  "Life Studies" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. June 27, 2011.

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• Drawing is the simplest way of establishing a picture vocabulary because it is an instant, personal declaration of what is important and what is not.

  Betty Goodwin

  Vocabulary, Important, Way

  Yolande Racine, Betty Goodwin, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Art Gallery of Ontario (1987). “Betty Goodwin: oeuvres de 1971 à 1987”, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal = Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

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• In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artist, Sketching, Goes On

  Vincent van Gogh, Dorothee Hansen, Lawrence W. Nichols, Judy Sund, Kunsthalle Bremen (2003). “Van Gogh: fields”

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• Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.

  Chuck Jones

  Artist, Way, Draws

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• The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space outside. This in itself is a sacred act. Architecture in itself conveys this idea of limiting space. It's a limit between the finite and the infinite. From this point of view, all architecture is sacred.

  Mario Botta

  Badass, Inspiration, Bad Ass

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• A straight line can readily be drawn among each of the two series of points corresponding to the maxima and minima, thus showing that there is a simple relation between the brightness of the variables and their periods.

  Henrietta Swan Leavitt

  Stars, Simple, Two

  "Periods of 25 Variable Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud". Harvard College Observatory Circular, vol. 173, (pp. 1-3), 1912.

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• Even the most powerful human being has a limited sphere of strength. Draw him outside of that sphere and into your own, and his strength will dissipate.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Strength, Being Strong, Art

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.154, Shambhala Publications

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• If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something.

  Yoko Ono

  Teaching, Learning, Angel

  Twitter post from Sep 17, 2015

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• When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No one can legislate love; it cannot be given orders or cajoled into service. Love belongs to itself, deaf to pleading and unmoved by violence. Love is not something you can negotiate. Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love Is, Order, Space

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