Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There is no Plan B. We will have to go back to the drawing board.

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

Mike Shanahan

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

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.

Bill Griffith

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

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.

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

We were driving and getting to the line. They were making shots and drawing the foul. We couldn't get the shot and one.

At this point, we're not really worrying about Berkeley. We have a number of other issues through injuries and trying to replace people. We're kind of drawing back right now and trying to get people ready.

That's a situation where we need to fight and hold them to three instead of a touchdown. That's part of football. You have to be ready for those situations. We didn't do it. But we have an opportunity to go right back to the drawing board.

The last thing I'd do is put purple streaks in my hair ... it's like drawing a target on yourself.

Not everyone who wants a tattoo has to be an artist, but if they can relay what they want, they can get a better tattoo. When it comes down to it, we prefer to do the drawings ourselves.

It's vitally important to be winning games at this stage of the season. We've gone six games now without winning so that's a real priority for us. We're drawing too many games and that's something we have to work hard on. I'm hopeful we can finish strongly.

Vincent Van Gogh

I want to do drawings which touch people...In figure or landscape I should wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.

The trend will be a stronger yen through to the end of this month. Strong stocks are drawing flows of overseas money into Japanese assets.

Dag Hammarskjold

The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the U.N. and what it means clearly. Everything will be all right -- you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction, and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

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!

Jennifer Hewitt

They're drawing on your energy. They draw on your upset, on your stress, on your tired, on your emotional and whatever else is going on with you at the time. Because they pull your energy, you feel like you're sick.

I had been working for Acme for six years. After a while, you realize you're just drawing a paycheck, and I felt like, 'If you're going to do something, you might as well really do it.' So, I opened my own store.