Drawing Quotes - Page 9

• The most distinguishing element of my novels is that I try as hard as I can - within the context of a popular commercial thriller - to make them feel authentic. Drawing on real locations and real events is part of that authenticity.

  Alex Berenson

  Real, Trying, Events

  "Fact and Fiction in The Shadow Patrol". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. April 10, 2012.

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• Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly prevailed in this country, of never submitting to the eye of the student, the figures on whose properties he is reasoning, but of drawing perspective representations of them upon a plane. ...I hope that I shall never be obliged to have recourse to a perspective drawing of any figure whose parts are not in the same plane.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Country, Eye, Science

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• The one [the logician] studies the science of drawing conclusions, the other [the mathematician] the science which draws necessary conclusions.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Science, Study, Mathematical

  "The Philosophy of Peirce: Selected Writings".

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• I think the way kids create is so inspiring. They're drawing a picture? They love the picture they drew; they're not tortured about it.

  Spike Jonze

  Kids, Thinking, Way

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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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• 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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• My doodles and sketches are not the work of an academic engineer. They represent many years of design study in attempts to produce the best value for money in the field of small car design.

  Alec Issigonis

  Years, Car, Design

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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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• The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life.

  Ray Romano

  Humor, Talking, Guy

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• We will be drawing down some troops. If the president wants to try to turn that into the beginning of a success, he actually, I think, has some opportunity.

  Stuart Rothenberg

  Opportunity, Thinking, Trying

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• Move forward. Keep drawing myself. I will look at the world in the eyes and run forward.

  Minzy

  Running, Moving, Eye

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• I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans, and, besides, has there ever been a building that didn't look great as a model?

  Paul Goldberger

  Looks, Building, Reviews

  "Apple's New Headquarters" by Paul Goldberger, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2011.

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• Man, fountains pen are a pain to use, drawing backgrounds is a also a pain... Drawing manga really is a pain. In short living is a pain... I want to become a cheesburger

  Hideaki Sorachi

  Pain, Men, Use

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• Rohini Mohan read. While she did, I sketched her. She writes with such beauty and violence, and it seemed like the best way to listen was to really watch her, in the way that only drawing someone lets me do.

  Molly Crabapple

  Writing, Watches, Way

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• No doubt exists that rent seeking in general leads to serious inefficiencies in this direct sense, but its indirect damage is even worse. Drawing the bulk of intelligent and energetic people in society into activity that has no social product, or may have a negative social product, is more important in explaining the stagnation of these societies than the direct social cost of the rent seeking.

  Gordon Tullock

  Intelligent, People, Doubt

  Gordon Tullock, Gordon L. Brady, Arthur Seldon (2002). “Government Failure: A Primer in Public Choice”, p.49, Cato Institute

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• I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.

  Gerald Scarfe

  War, Vietnam, Very Sad

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• You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?

  Peter De Vries

  Real, Issues, Sound

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• Some sculptors make drawings, I make heads.

  David Altmejd

  Sculptors

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• Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life.

  Sophocles

  Death, Enough, Ends

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Men, Civilization, Quality

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.

  Alison Bechdel

  Taken, Men, Bored

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• I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.

  Carlos Fuentes

  News, Magazines, Film

  "Carlos Fuentes obituary" by Nick Caistor, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2012.

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• A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Dust, Two, Silence

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• But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Paper, Dots, Painting

  Roy Lichtenstein, David Sylvester, Galerie Lawrence Rubin (1997). “Roy Lichtenstein: new paintings”

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