Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hockney

Drawing takes time. A line has time in it

David Hockney

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

David Hockney

I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.

Weston's been drawing walks, but he hasn't been hitting the way he can. Today, he got back to hitting line drives.

When you throw dung on our Virgin Mother, it is hate speech. It is the same thing as drawing a swastika on a synagogue.

When you throw dung on our Virgin Mother, it is hate speech, ... It is the same thing as drawing a swastika on a synagogue.

There is no Plan B. We will have to go back to the drawing board.

When I was actually drawing the lethal injection, she died.

Mike Shanahan

We're going to go back to the drawing board,

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I don't want to spend my entire life drawing talking heads. It seems like a waste of everyone's time.

Charles M. Schulz

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a cartoonist. That's my Life. DRAWING.

Bil Keane

I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.

Bill Watterson

Too often cartoonists just look at other cartoonists and, after a lot of inbreeding, everyone has the same funny look. The challenge of drawing is that there is no one right way to visually describe something. It's a good thing to confront your limitations and preconceptions every so often.

Bill Griffith

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

Bob Monkhouse

When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to?

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects.

We've studied stuff that happened in other cities. The lame-duck factor is brutal. Houston was drawing 15,000-20,000 a game. We don't expect that to happen here, but I'd rather be in an inferior stadium (elsewhere) than lame duck in my own town.

Carol Ann Duffy

You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue.

Alain de Botton

The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.

Edward Norton

You know when somebody really knows what they're drawing from and you can feel it when you see the movie.

This proposal here will send us back to the drawing board.

Brian Blessed

I threw [Picasso's] drawing on the floor and in doing so, threw away about £50m.

Jamie Hewlett

Drawing Is An Escape From All The Unecessary Things In Life That Get In The Way Of Being Free

We ran into problems getting the drawings and permitting together. A lot of the people involved with the project had so much work on their hands, on top of this.

Billy Connolly

I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it's not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.

Billy Connolly

I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.

Bonnie Wright

I like doing clay work. It's different from drawing on a page because you have something to mold into different shapes. It's quite visual, it's a thing you can hold and feel, and that makes it different from drawing.

Edmund Burke

I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

Edward E. Barnard

I have been watching and drawing the surface of Mars. It is wonderfully full of detail. There is certainly no question about there being mountains and large greatly elevated plateaus.

Edgar Degas

Drawing is your understanding of form.

Edgar Degas

Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.

Edgar Degas

Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.

Brad Bird

When caricaturist, Al Hirschfeld, did a drawing of a celebrity, it often looked more like the person than the person did. That's our goal in animation.