Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Adams

I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.

Scott Adams

One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's something about that that keeps it fresh to the viewer.

Thomas Jefferson

The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.

Robert Henri

Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.

Robert Henri

You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.

Robert Henri

Has your drawing the meaning you saw in the model at first?

Robert Henri

Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.

Robert Henri

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.

Robert Henri

Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.

Robert Henri

Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.

Robert Henri

A drawing should be a verdict on the model. Don't confuse a drawing with a map.

Ulysses S. Grant

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

Robert Hughes

Drawing never dies, it holds on by the skin of its teeth, because the hunger it satisfies – the desire for an active, investigative, manually vivid relation with the things we see and yearn to know about – is apparently immortal.

Robyn Hitchcock

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

Susan Mitchell

It's possible to keep drawing this moment out, any moment, hammering it thinner and thinner like beaten gold, like iced chablis, whipping it, whipping it to cheap perfume, each word blown to aneurysm.

Susanna Clarke

Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.

Stan Smith

If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it.

Sigmar Polke

Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm not sure what will come out.

Sergio Aragones

When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.

Sergio Aragones

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.

Pierre Bonnard

And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done

Pierre Bonnard

You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.

Pierre Bonnard

Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.

James Madison

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

Tim Burton

I don't look at my films or my old drawings much, so that was an interesting way to kind of reconnect with myself a bit.

Traian Basescu

Even the National Bank of Romania doesn't have the huge resources needed to intervene in the market and keep the leu at an acceptable level, because they're drawing close to a floor below which the bank's reserves can't drop. The central bank has to wait for a moment of calm to efficiently conduct its interventions.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

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.

Maddie Ziegler

I'm very artistic - I feel like ever since I was born I've been drawing. I actually have a picture in my room that I painted, and people are always like "Where did you buy that?" It's cool that people are impressed by it.

Joyce Grenfell

I have a theory that I did most of my observing probably before I was twenty, stored it, and am still drawing on it.

Ouida

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

Kanye West

When I was in fourth grade I was drawing Jordans when my mama couldn't afford them.

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.