Draws Quotes - Page 20

• Perspective starts from one viewpoint and never gets away from it. But the viewpoint is quite unimportant. It is though someone were to draw profiles all his life, leading people to think that a man has only one eye.

  Georges Braque

  Eye, Men, Thinking

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• I used to lie down on the grass and draw the blades as they grew - until every square foot of meadow, or mossy bank, became a possession to me.

  John Ruskin

  Lying, Squares, Feet

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• All good and genuine draftsmen draw according to the picture inscribed in their minds, and not according to nature.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Drawing, Mind, Genuine

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• When I have a model who is quiet and steady and with whom I am acquainted, then I draw repeatedly 'til there is one drawing that is different from the rest, which does not look like an ordinary study, but more typical and with more feeling.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Drawing, Feelings, Typical

  Vincent van Gogh, Anthon Gerhard Alexander Rappard (ridder van), Anthon van Rappard (1936). “Letters to an artist: from Vincent van Gogh to Anton ridder van Rappard, 1881-1885”

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• Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real.

  Diana Trilling

  Real, Blood, Hands

  Diana Trilling (1977). “We Must March My Darlings: A Critical Decade”, Harcourt

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• Learn to draw. Try to make your hand so unconsciously adept that it will put down what you feel without your having to think of your hands. Then you can think of the thing before you.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Thinking, Hands, Drawing

  Sherwood Anderson (1977). “The Portable Sherwood Anderson”, Viking Press

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• Draw, draw, hundreds of drawings. Try to remain humble. Smartness kills everything.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Humble, Drawing, Trying

  Sherwood Anderson (1977). “The Portable Sherwood Anderson”, Viking Press

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• Draw things that have some meaning to you. An apple, what does it mean? The object drawn doesn't matter so much. It's what you feel about it, what it means to you. A masterpiece could be made of a dish of turnips.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Mean, Apples, Doe

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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• Once my hand has drawn something my eye has observed, I know it by heart, and I can draw it again without a model.

  David Hockney

  Heart, Eye, Hands

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• I usually only draw myself in down periods... I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's have a look in the mirror.' When you are alone and you look in a mirror you never put on a pleasing smile. Well, you don't, do you?

  David Hockney

  Thinking, Mirrors, Looks

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• Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Teacher, Teaching, Water Of Life

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• A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.

  Alain de Botton

  Successful, Exciting, Interest

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• Man can make only the rules. He cannot make the laws, which are the laws of nature. It is the understanding of these laws that enables a student to draw.

  Kimon Nicolaides

  Men, Law, Understanding

  Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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