Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paula Rego

Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.

Peter Bergen

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Scott Adams

I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.

Scott Adams

One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's something about that that keeps it fresh to the viewer.

Kevin Henkes

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

And we'll probably draw even more next time.

Eric Schlosser

Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists, and criminologists.

Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will.

Alexander Pope

Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.

There was a larger-than-expected draw in crude-oil stocks and imports fell, which was surprising given that ports had reopened. The size of the distillate draw wasn't spectacular but is disconcerting given that we are approaching the heating season.

Sathya Baba

Every experience that is drawn through any of the senses has an effect on one's health.

. . . as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow.

Karen White

At this point it's hard for me to draw any conclusions. We know the standards, but we don't know exactly what was tested. It's the first year of data. At a very first glance, I'm pleased, but to draw any meaningful data, it's too early.

Dick Weber is the only person who could draw all those people to St. Louis. It was a pretty moving thing.

William Wordsworth

A simple child,That lightly draws its breath,And feels its life in every limb,What should it know of death?

Marc Rotenberg

We think it's very useful that people can go to the Internet and get a lot of information, but we think it's appropriate to draw the line where personal information is given at a Web site.

We didn't know where to draw a line. We thought it was much better to say no gifts.

We did see a larger draw than expected, but that draw was mitigated by a significant increase in refinery runs.

We went through cupboards, files and drawers and turned up some extraordinary information about relations between Iraq and Moscow,

You go back to the drawing board, start all over again,

I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.