Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vincent Van Gogh

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

I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.

Virginia Woolf

Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!

Virginia Woolf

The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.

Werner Herzog

In the Chauvet Cave, there is a painting of a bison embracing the lower part of a naked female body. Why does Pablo Picasso, who had no knowledge of the Chauvet Cave, use exactly the same motif in his series of drawings of the Minotaur and the woman? Very, very strange.

Robyn Hitchcock

I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.

Wally Lamb

As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.

Rod Serling

Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic.

W. E. B. Du Bois

The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the condition of the Negro is ever the cause for further discrimination.

Zack Snyder

The problem is, when you're making an animated movie, the studio has an illusion in their minds - and it's really not true - that because it's a drawing, it can be changed at any time.

Wassily Kandinsky

Drawing instruction is a training towards perception, exact observation and exact presentation not of the outward appearances of an object, but of its constructive elements, its lawful forces-tensions, which can be discovered in given objects and of the logical structures of same-education toward clear observation and clear rendering of the contexts, whereby surface phenomena are an introductory step towards the three-dimensional.

Wassily Kandinsky

Everything starts from a dot.

Vince Vaughn

My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.

William Eggleston

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.

Remember in meditation the One who summons us; O Nanak, that day is drawing near! Meeting the Guru, we meet the Lord. He Himself unites us in His Union.

Our parks system has so much potential that we ignore and we should be stepping up to the plate and making sure it's a draw in terms of tourism and not an embarrassment.

In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.

If you were to draw it up, this would be the perfect day.

Damien Chazelle

If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that a lot of musicians juggle with. I've always found it so fascinating.

James Fox

In nighttime games, there's a much longer drinking period leading up to the game. The clientele going to day games is different than at night. Day games tend to draw more families.

I had been working for Acme for six years. After a while, you realize you're just drawing a paycheck, and I felt like, 'If you're going to do something, you might as well really do it.' So, I opened my own store.

If you draw just from within your ethnicity, that's fine.

Rahul Dravid

If you prepare another wicket like this it will be another drawn series.

If you're looking at the numbers of people that we can draw, the state lakes makes us a destination when it's drawing that many people, ... If you take that away, we could be lacking in the volume to be called that.

If you look at the original drawings you can see how sketchy some of them were,

Greg Rusedski

If you could have written the worst draw for me then this was it,

In this type of field where you have the top four or five players in the world and you've got many from the top 15, any draw is a tough one,

Vincent Van Gogh

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing

John Lurie

I like to draw and paint. It is a river to me.

Vince Carter

I just wanted to push him out as far as I could and just stay down. He's good at that pump fake and drawing the foul late in the game. So I wanted to keep my hands up and make it a tough shot. If he makes it, he makes it.

Johnny Depp

I really approached the film as if it was a white big piece of paper and I was just going to draw a picture on it. And whether that picture was good or bad, whatever people thought of it, what they could never take away was that it was my picture.

I put it out on the Web. I didn't think it would draw the level of response it did. I started getting e-mails from everywhere -- Bosnia, Okinawa, everywhere you could imagine.

Syed Noor

Before doing anything important, he would write 'yes' or 'no' on two pieces of paper. Then sitting near the embalmed body, he would draw lots and decide.