Drawing Quotes

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

But I have sometimes thought that a woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through which everyone passes in going in and out; the drawing-room, where one receives formal visits; the sitting-room, where the members of the family come and go as they list; but beyond that, far beyond, are other rooms, the handles of whose doors perhaps are never turned; no one knows the way to them, no one knows whither they lead; and in the innermost room, the holy of holies, the soul sits alone and waits for a footstep that never comes.

Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.

Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

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

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

The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of, and feeling toward, women and Negroes, we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture.

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.

Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.

When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged. I love trying to render not just the object, but what it has been through.

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake.

Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive to formality or etiquette") comes from the same original root as punctuation.

I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right.

My work is so unorthodox that from one panel to the next, the drawings are completely different... totally opposed to the way of working in something like animation, where every drawing has to look like the one before.

Maps are essential. Planning a journey without a map is like building a house without drawings.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.

We need to stop Sharon. His lethal policies are drawing blood on both sides. That's why we need a serious intervention — international troops. And we need to end the occupation if there is to be security for both people.

Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms.

Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.

All of you here have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone.

For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.

Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

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.

Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . . . Is this not form?

I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasn't going well"¦ He asked me to come to his studio — which I did — I looked around at the work, dozens of sketches, drawings, large pictures, and I was very close to his work, intensely involved with his work, and he asked me, "˜What's wrong?' And I said, "˜Simple "“ it's a loss of nerve.

Who bides his time tastes the sweet Of honey in the saltiest tear; And though he fares with slowest feet Joy runs to meet him drawing near.

The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.

Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.

We take as given the idea of distinction and the idea of indication, and that one cannot make an indication without drawing a distinction. We take therefore the form of distinction for the form.