Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ellsworth Kelly

I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to ten minutes.

Jack Kirby

I admired anybody who could make a buck with his drawing.

Irving Stone

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

Fred Trueman

I need nine wickets from this match, and you buggers had better start drawing straws to see who I don't get.

If you're looking at the numbers of people that we can draw, the state lakes makes us a destination when it's drawing that many people, ... If you take that away, we could be lacking in the volume to be called that.

If you look at the original drawings you can see how sketchy some of them were,

Vincent Van Gogh

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing

John Gray

Anything that makes you feel good is always going to be drawing in more.

Julia Ward Howe

Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding would become evident in a chosen company.

Kirsty Gallacher

I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.

Marilyn Monroe

What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

Margaret J. Wheatley

In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature.

Michelangelo

Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.

Rafael Moneo

Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

Marie Dressler

My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards.

My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.

Lucy Fry

I remember preparing for my audition on the plane to L.A. — I was drawing all these weird vampire pictures and I am sure the gorgeous ladynext to me thought I was very odd.

Louis L'Amour

At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.

Michael Crichton

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.

Paul Goldberger

I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans, and, besides, has there ever been a building that didn't look great as a model?

Lillie Langtry

My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.

Pablo Picasso

In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

Pablo Picasso

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

Pablo Picasso

I draw like other people bite their nails.

Pablo Picasso

Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper.

Pablo Picasso

To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.

Paul Ince

When I retire I'm gonna bet on Wolves drawing every game. I'll be a multi-millionaire!

Paul Cezanne

Pure drawing is an abstraction.

Paul Cezanne

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

Patricia Reilly Giff

Drawing is what you see of the world, truly see...And sometimes what you see is so deep in your head you're not even sure of what you're seeing. But when it's down there on paper, and you look at it, really look, you'll see the way things are...that's the world, isn't it? You have to keep looking to find the truth.