Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Tony Abbott

In drawing an inference or conclusion from facts proved, regard must always be had to the nature of the particular case, and the facility that appears to be afforded, either of explanation or contradiction. No person is to be required to explain or contradict, until enough has been proved to warrant a reasonable and just conclusion against him, in the absence of explanation or contradiction.

Tite Kubo

Any questions?" "Ya why do your drawings suck so bad?

Rudolf Arnheim

The experienced physician, mechanic, or physiologist looking at a wound, an engine, a microscopic preparation, "sees" things the novice does not see. If both, experts and laymen, were asked to make exact copies of what they see, their drawings would be quite different.

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.

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.

Roy Lichtenstein

But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.

Roy Lichtenstein

But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.

Roy Lichtenstein

I'm never drawing the object itself; I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of 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.

Rafael Moneo

Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

Siegfried Sassoon

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

Seth MacFarlane

I still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis.

Seth Godin

Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

John Singer Sargent

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

Marie Dressler

My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards.

My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.

Margaret J. Wheatley

In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature.

Michelangelo

Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.

Maynard James Keenan

The process that we go through in recording with Tool is very organic, but at the same time it is very thought out. There is a very left-brain process of dissecting what we're doing and drawing from source material; it's very research oriented and esoteric.

Pat Oliphant

Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.

James Jeans

...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of their own inner consciousness and without drawing to any appreciable extent on their experience of the outer world.

Philip Roth

That can happen when people die, the argument with them drops away and people so flawed while they were drawing breath that at times they were all but unbearable now assert themselves in the most appealing way, and what was least to your liking the day before yesterday becomes in the limousine behind the hearse a cause not only for sympathetic amusement but for admiration

Well, back to the drawing board.

Nicole Krauss

The misery of other people is only an abstraction something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one's own experiences. But as it stands, true empathy remains impossible. And so long as it is, people will continue to suffer the pressure of their seemingly singular existence.

Nassau William Senior

But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.

Mary Leakey

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.

Paul Cezanne

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.