Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patricia Reilly Giff

Drawing is what you see of the world, truly see...And sometimes what you see is so deep in your head you're not even sure of what you're seeing. But when it's down there on paper, and you look at it, really look, you'll see the way things are...that's the world, isn't it? You have to keep looking to find the truth.

Lucy Fry

I remember preparing for my audition on the plane to L.A. — I was drawing all these weird vampire pictures and I am sure the gorgeous ladynext to me thought I was very odd.

Louis L'Amour

At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.

Michael Crichton

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.

NBC is not drawing as many people from other networks the way the Winter Olympics usually does.

Music is a way to express yourself. It's just another way to paint a picture or make a drawing or whatever.

Now she's drawing her picture on her piece of paper.

William Cowper

From reveries so airy, from the toil / Of dropping buckets into empty wells, / And growing old in drawing nothing up.

Patrick Keeler

I'd usually go to Jack if Brendan was busy. There was also a series of paper, rock, scissors, drawing lots and, ultimately, a duel.

From the beginning, we said we would wait for the science prior to drawing any conclusions.

Yoko Ono

He was very generous about it. I just wonder where those drawings went.

Elizabeth Kenny

One of the puppets is a drawing on my thumb. That is Handsome Percy.

I have always been interested in drawing as long as I can remember.

I have been drawing since I was very little and I have been playing hockey for five years.

Jeff Koons

If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about getting the outline of the forest.

Felix Frankfurter

The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of drawing lines.

Chris Ware

Drawing on a computer doesn't make any sense to me. It's not intuitive.

George Carlin

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?

Frederick Forsyth

He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul and where it all really happened, ... The Day of the Jackal.

Fiona Apple

I’m amorous but out of reach / A still life drawing of a peach.

Henry Moore

I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.

Henry Moore

The construction of the human figure, its tremendous variety of balance, of size, of rhythm, all those things make the human form much more difficult to get right in a drawing than anything else.

Henry Moore

I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Bonnat tells me, 'Your painting isn't bad, it is chic, but even so it isn't bad, but your drawing is absolutely atrocious.' So I must gather my courage and start once again...

Christopher Alexander

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

Jeanette Winterson

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.

Jim Dine

More important than having a romance with the object that I'm drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I am making.

Eric Clapton

They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn't seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.

Jasper Johns

I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.

Graeme Le Saux

Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.

Gwen John

I am going to do some drawings or paintings...in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something.

Jack Kirby

I admired anybody who could make a buck with his drawing.

Irving Stone

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.