Quotes and Sayings About Drawing
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It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I was once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous influence; that I've been told I was on the verge of insanity, that my painting was nothing but meaningless daubs. Lawren Harris, the man most responsible for drawing the Group of Seven together, was accused of something perilously close to treason - his paintings, said his severest critics, were discouraging immigration.
-- A. Y. Jackson -
Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
-- Adam Gopnik -
Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
-- Adam Gopnik -
We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
-- Adam Sedgwick -
Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists.
-- Adrian McKinty -
I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
-- Agnes Denes -
Iwas a sculptor.Butthat'sreallydrawinga drawing you fall over in the dark, a three-dimensional drawing.
-- Al Hirschfeld -
You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested in the present.
-- Al Hirschfeld -
Cursed in earth and subdued by death, man found himself beset by time, and his instincts put to the test. Only then, he realized that with love he could survive, and that for a certain purpose he would toil. For those whom my love can not immune from death, are dedicated these paintings, in the hope they may express in drawing the reality of a resonant mind.
-- Ala Bashir -
Drawing is like the first kiss. It carries within it the deepest emotion and the challenge of the first step. It is the first cry after birth
-- Ala Bashir -
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.
-- Alain de Botton -
The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.
-- Alain de Botton -
When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged. I love trying to render not just the object, but what it has been through.
-- Alan Lee -
I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right.
-- Alan Lee -
To draw a tree, to pay such close attention to every aspect of a tree, is an act of reverence not only toward the tree, and toward the earth itself, but also our human connection to it. This is one of the magical things about drawing -- it gives us almost visionary moments of connectedness.
-- Alan Lee -
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. The activity of the intuition consists in making spontaneous judgements which are not the result of conscious trains of reasoning... The exercise of ingenuity in mathematics consists in aiding the intuition through suitable arrangements of propositions, and perhaps geometrical figures or drawings.
-- Alan Turing -
When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
My doodles and sketches are not the work of an academic engineer. They represent many years of design study in attempts to produce the best value for money in the field of small car design.
-- Alec Issigonis -
The most distinguishing element of my novels is that I try as hard as I can - within the context of a popular commercial thriller - to make them feel authentic. Drawing on real locations and real events is part of that authenticity.
-- Alex Berenson -
Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.
-- Alexander Kotov -
Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart, and in spirit.
-- Alexander Whyte -
Writing and drawing are very therapeutic, but they are also an excellent manifestation tool. I teach my clients to draw what they want, or to write a story about it to bring the manifestation forward into the present.
-- Alice McCall -
I paint; I'm a woman but I don't paint china. The first time I got a canvas I felt free. Art is overreaction to life. I love these early drawings; they show my innocent beginnings in a small town. Life is a sentence -- you live it out. Maybe these portraits jump out at you too much. People like things that conform.
-- Alice Neel -
I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.
-- Alison Bechdel -
Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.
-- Alison Bechdel -
Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.
-- Alison Bechdel -
For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.
-- Alison Bechdel -
There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear..." he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, "Revenge.
-- Ally Carter
