Draws Quotes - Page 20

• Merely to see... is not enough. It is necessary to have a fresh, vivid, physical contact with the object you draw through as many of the senses as possible - and especially through the sense of touch.

  Kimon Nicolaides

  Vivid, Enough, Contact

  Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Stones, Sculpture, Form

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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, Drawing, Parent

  "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, Drawing, Long

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• Once I started working, it became better and better. I really felt that I was back into the work. I was glad I was alive. Just being able to draw and paint - even if I can't walk - is worth living for.

  John Newman

  Gratitude, Alive, Able

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• I use as sensitive a line as possible when I draw on the plate.

  Jay Moore

  Use, Lines, Sensitive

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• I've been collecting since college, .. When we're children, we're taught to draw in the lines, use certain colors. In this art, the talent and the creativity we had as children hasn't been squashed. The early stuff is still there.

  Beverly L. Kaye

  Art, Children, Creativity

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• In collage you're doing it in stages so you're not actually doing it right there. You first of all draw it on the paper, then you cut it up, then you paste it down, then you change it, then you shove it about, then you may paint bits of it over, so actually you're not making the picture there and then, you're making it through a process, so it's not so spontaneous.

  Paula Rego

  Cutting, Firsts, Paper

  John McEwen, Paula Rego (1992). “Paula Rego”

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• You can't just draw a veil of secrecy when you are locking people up. You have to do at least the minimum, which is to acknowledge who you are holding.

  Jamie Fellner

  People, Veils, Secrecy

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• Curiosity allows your unique "owned processes" to draw you toward creative conclusions.

  Robert Genn

  Unique, Creative, Curiosity

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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

  Drawing, Watches, Lines

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• He who draws upon his own resources easily comes to an end of his wealth.

  William Hazlitt

  Wealth, Ends, Resources

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1628, Delphi Classics

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• The positive thinker, on the contrary, constantly sends out positive thoughts, together with vital mental images of hope, optimism and creativity. He therefore activates the world around him positively and strongly tends to draw back to himself positive results. This, too, is a basic law of mind action.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Positive, Creativity, Law

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Positive Principle Today”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• If someone knows from experience that daily Communion increases fervor without lessening reverence, then let him go every day. But if someone finds that reverence is lessened and devotion not much increased, then let him sometimes abstain, so as to draw near afterwards with better dispositions.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Christian, Holy Eucharist, Saint

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• In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Letting Go, Pain, Disappointment

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• In men whom men condemn as ill
  I find so much of goodness still,
  In men whom men pronounce divine
  I find so much of sin and blot,
  I do not dare to draw a line
  Between the two, where God has not.

  Joaquin Miller

  Life And Love, Men, Two

  Joaquin Miller (1996). “Life Amongst the Modocs: Unwritten History”, p.415, Heyday

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• They also have at that critical point of death the opportunity to be converted to God through repentance. And if they are so obstinate that even at the point of death their heart does not draw back from malice, it is possible to make a quite probable judgment that they would never come away from evil.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Heart, Opportunity, Evil

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• Look at that mallard as he floats on the lake; see his elevated head glittering with emerald green, his amber eyes glancing in the light! Even at this distance, he has marked you, and suspects that you bear no goodwill towards him, for he sees that you have a gun, and he has many a time been frightened by its report, or that of some other. The wary bird draws his feet under his body, springs upon then, opens his wings, and with loud quacks bids you farewell.

  John James Audubon

  Distance, Spring, Farewell

  John James Audubon (1835). “Ornithological Biography: Or An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America; Accompanied by Descriptions of the Objects Represented in the Work Entitled The Birds of America, and Interspersed with Delineations of American Scenery and Manners. 5 Vol. Il. Q.”, p.165

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• When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born.

  Walt Disney

  Kansas, Vegetarian, Vegan

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• All wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light.

  John Muir

  Spiritual, Light, Wilderness

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more”, p.739, e-artnow

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• We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Lines, Wealth, Misconduct

  Theodore Roosevelt (1908). “The Roosevelt Policy: Speeches, Letters and State Papers, Relating to Corporate Wealth and Closely Allied Topics, of Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States”

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• I think you have to know these fellows definitely before you can draw them. When you start to caricature a person,you can't do it without knowing the person. Take Laurel and Hardy for example; everybody can see Laurel doing certain things because they know Laurel.

  Walt Disney

  Thinking, Knowing, Example

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• No words will ever describe the exquisite beauty and charm of this mountain park – Nature’s landscape garden at once tenderly beautiful and sublime. No wonder it draws nature-lovers from all over the world.

  John Muir

  Beautiful, Garden, Sublime

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.275, Library of America

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• Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. Call an elephant a rabbit only if it gives you comfort to feel that you are about to be trampled to death by a rabbit.

  Kenneth Kaunda

  Power, Elephants, Issues

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• It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods;
  To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip,
  Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity,
  Or draw a line daring them to cross.

  Anne Spencer

  Women, Humanity, Weakness

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