Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will.

Camille Pissarro

It is the brushwork of the right value and color which should produce the drawing.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I don't want to spend my entire life drawing talking heads. It seems like a waste of everyone's time.

Weston's been drawing walks, but he hasn't been hitting the way he can. Today, he got back to hitting line drives.

When you throw dung on our Virgin Mother, it is hate speech. It is the same thing as drawing a swastika on a synagogue.

When you throw dung on our Virgin Mother, it is hate speech, ... It is the same thing as drawing a swastika on a synagogue.

Bob Monkhouse

When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to?

Edward Gorey

If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.

David Hockney

People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'

David Hockney

It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.

David Hockney

Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?

David Hockney

I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.

David Hockney

I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more.

David Hockney

Drawing takes time. A line has time in it

David Hockney

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

David Hockney

I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.

Edward E. Barnard

I have been watching and drawing the surface of Mars. It is wonderfully full of detail. There is certainly no question about there being mountains and large greatly elevated plateaus.

Edgar Degas

Drawing is your understanding of form.

Edgar Degas

Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.

Edgar Degas

Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.

Carlos Fuentes

I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.

We have to get back to the drawing board. I hate being at 0-2, but we'll come back.

Alan Lee

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

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.

Charles Baudelaire

All good and genuine draftsmen draw according to the picture inscribed in their minds, and not according to nature.

Charles M. Schulz

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a cartoonist. That's my Life. DRAWING.

Bil Keane

I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.

Bill Watterson

Too often cartoonists just look at other cartoonists and, after a lot of inbreeding, everyone has the same funny look. The challenge of drawing is that there is no one right way to visually describe something. It's a good thing to confront your limitations and preconceptions every so often.

When I was actually drawing the lethal injection, she died.

Mike Shanahan

We're going to go back to the drawing board,

Brad Bird

When caricaturist, Al Hirschfeld, did a drawing of a celebrity, it often looked more like the person than the person did. That's our goal in animation.

Don Bluth

If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!