Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Singer Sargent

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

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

All of these factors are drawing in fund buying.

Henri Matisse

I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.

Henri Matisse

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

Henri Matisse

Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

James Purefoy

One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.

Jackson Pollock

With experience it seems to be possible to control the flow of paint, to a great extent, and I don't use - I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident... it's quite different from working, say, from a still life where you set up objects and work directly from them. I do have a general notion of what I'm about and what the results will be. I approach painting in the same sense as one approaches drawing, that is, it's direct.

Louise Bourgeois

I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.

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.

Kenneth Clark

It is often said that Leonardo drew so well because he knew about things; it is truer to say that he knew about things because he drew so well.

Naomi Wolf

In drawing attention to the physical characteristics of women leaders, they can be dismissed as either too pretty or too ugly. The net effect is to prevent women's identification with the issues. If the public women is stigmatized as too 'pretty,' she's a threat, a rival--or simply not serious; if derided as too 'ugly,' one risks tarring oneself with the same brush by identifying oneself with her agenda.

Odilon Redon

Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.

Bill Thomas

This hearing is drawing a line. There are no more tomorrows,

The earliest we can prove me drawing is 10-months-old.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

James Thurber

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

Ellsworth Kelly

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

Ellsworth Kelly

My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good.

Ellsworth Kelly

All my work begins with drawings.

Ellsworth Kelly

I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line.

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?

Laurie Halse Anderson

They say they have noticed me drawing. I almost tell them right then and there. They noticed.

L. Ron Hubbard

A true Educator locates the intelligence and abilities within another, drawing them out for all, even the student, to see. And then steps out of the way, allowing them to develop, create and pursue their talent.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.

Sean Scully

I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is a very rich and reactive surface. I begin by drawing on the canvas with a kind of loose line, very simply and freely. I paint very thinly, which allows me to change the drawing if I want to.

Peter Bergen

At one point people in al Qaeda were actually drawing monthly paychecks when they were based in Sudan.

Kevin Henkes

Try drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination.

Helen Frankenthaler

We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.

Marcel Proust

We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the features of the person that we are and not of the person we should like to be.

Jorma Kaukonen

We do a wealth of stuff (live), drawing from over the years.