Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Henri

A drawing should be a verdict on the model. Don't confuse a drawing with a map.

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.

Stan Smith

If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it.

Tim Burton

I don't look at my films or my old drawings much, so that was an interesting way to kind of reconnect with myself a bit.

William Morris Hunt

Compare constantly, lines and angles... Hold looking-glass before your model and your drawing. Take a second's glance only, and see if the impression be the same. If it be not, ask, 'What is the difference?

Ulysses S. Grant

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

Robert Barry

The drawings that I show - the drawings that I present to people are finished works in themselves. They're meant to be thought of that way and not necessarily lead to larger pieces or anything like that. And that's the way I work now.

Robert Crumb

Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp.

Rob Bell

For many people, God is primitive, behind, trying to drag everything back to some prehistoric era as opposed to spirit, force, love, drawing us into a better future, which to me is - that story has done something in me and I've seen it do things in other people.

Rod Serling

Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic.

Virginia Woolf

She felt drawing further from her and further from her an Archduke, (she did not mind that) a fortune, (she did not mind that) the safety and circumstance of married life, (she did not mind that) but life she heard going from her, and a lover.

W. E. B. Du Bois

The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the condition of the Negro is ever the cause for further discrimination.

Zack Snyder

The problem is, when you're making an animated movie, the studio has an illusion in their minds - and it's really not true - that because it's a drawing, it can be changed at any time.

William Eggleston

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.

Vincent Van Gogh

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

Vincent Van Gogh

I felt my energy return and that I said to myself, in any event I'll recover from it, I'll pick up my pencil that I put down in my great discouragement and I'll get back to drawing, and from then on, it seems to me, everything has changed for me.

Vincent Van Gogh

Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.

Vincent Van Gogh

When I have a model who is quiet and steady and with whom I am acquainted, then I draw repeatedly 'til there is one drawing that is different from the rest, which does not look like an ordinary study, but more typical and with more feeling.

Vincent Van Gogh

I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.

Virginia Woolf

Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!

Virginia Woolf

The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.

William Blake

He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.

Werner Herzog

In the Chauvet Cave, there is a painting of a bison embracing the lower part of a naked female body. Why does Pablo Picasso, who had no knowledge of the Chauvet Cave, use exactly the same motif in his series of drawings of the Minotaur and the woman? Very, very strange.

Kevin Henkes

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

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.

Robert Hughes

Drawing never dies, it holds on by the skin of its teeth, because the hunger it satisfies – the desire for an active, investigative, manually vivid relation with the things we see and yearn to know about – is apparently immortal.

Robyn Hitchcock

I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.

Wally Lamb

As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.