Drawing Quotes - Page 7

• Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing.

  Jim Davis

  Commit

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• It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.

  Henri Rousseau

  Art, Hands, Ends

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• In the end, worship can never be a performance, something you're pretending or putting on. It's got to be an overflow of your heart...Worship is about getting personal with God, drawing close to God.

  Matt Redman

  God, Christian, Religious

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• The first ten thousand drawings are the hardest. Put another way, you have ten thousand bad drawings within and should expel them as quickly as possible.

  Wallace Tripp

  Way, Firsts, Should

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• You can never do too much drawing.

  Tintoretto

  Sketching, Too Much

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• What can make your work interesting is as much who you are, as how you draw.

  John Howe

  Interesting, Draws, Who You Are

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• I became a writer through drawing first and then a comic book obsession - Marvel Comics, in particular. I invented a world of superheroes starting in third grade with my classmate, Wai-Kwan Wong. In a classroom of forty kids, let's just say there was a lot of undirected time. But this was good because I was a dreamy boy.

  Adam Ross

  Book, Kids, Boys

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing.

  John Ruskin

  Believe, Sight, Important

  John Ruskin (2012). “The Elements of Drawing”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• Try to distill the character of your subject. Understand how he moves, thinks, acts. It's difficult to put into words. Consider each drawing as a problem that did not exist before, and then try to solve that problem to the best of your ability. That i what caricature is all about

  Al Hirschfeld

  Moving, Character, Thinking

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• Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a young beginning artist, no doubt they crop up again and again.

  Elaine de Kooning

  Children, Artist, Ideas

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• Even when you paint, you never stop drawing.

  Igor Babailov

  Paint

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• Doing fashion drawings was the only way I had to express myself when I was a teenager.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Fashion, Teenager, Way

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• The architect must not only understand drawing, but music.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Architecture, Architect

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• Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.

  Chuck Jones

  Keys, Mind, Animation

  Chuck Jones, Maureen Furniss (2005). “Chuck Jones: Conversations”, p.166, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.

  Gerald Scarfe

  Movement, Kind, Animation

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• Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.

  Alison Bechdel

  Black And White, Hair, Gray

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• Doing Tim's film is always going to be the most pleasure. Let me just put it that way. So, without drawing favorites one way or the other, getting back with him and doing Mars Attacks! was certainly a special treat.

  Danny Elfman

  Special, Mars, Way

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• Until we can insert a USB into our ear and download our thoughts, drawing remains the best way of getting visual information on to the page. I draw as a collagist, juxtaposing images and styles of mark-making from many sources. The world I draw is the interior landscape of my own personal obsessions and of cultures I have absorbed and adapted, from Latvian folk art to Japanese screens. I lasso thoughts with a pen. I draw a stave church or someone from Hello! magazine not because I want to replicate how they look, but because of the meaning they bring to the work.

  Grayson Perry

  Art, Style, Church

  "Grayson Perry lassos thoughts with a pen" by Grayson Perry, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.

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• I like that cartoons are now not only animated drawings, they are a way of doing something: 'That song sounds very cartoony', or 'He has a cartoon face'. Like the word 'poetic', which usually means something different than a poem. But most of all cartoons are comforting, that's the real reason I need them.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Song, Real, Mean

  Source: www.newrafael.com

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• I am only an artist, my job is to make drawings not to make sense.

  William Kentridge

  Jobs, Artist, Make Sense

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• I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.

  Mike Thompson

  Thinking, People, Luck

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• If this Constitution does not have the support of the people of Europe and on reflection is not deemed to signpost a structure of Europe of the twenty-first century, then we simply have to go back to the drawing board.

  Gisela Stuart

  Reflection, Europe, People

  Gisela Stuart (2003). “The Making of Europe's Constitution”

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• It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.

  Bram Stoker

  Eye, Sight, Dust

  Bram Stoker (2006). “Dracula - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.333, Prestwick House Inc

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• He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul and where it all really happened, ... The Day of the Jackal.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Istanbul, Spy, Rooms

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• During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and "style" as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older.

  Chris Ware

  Change, School, Texas

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. December 31, 2003.

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