Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Marilyn Monroe

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

Christopher Fowler

The drawings are terribly good.

Christian Lacroix

There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing

Christian Louboutin

I am very bad at drawing. Seriously. I can draw shoes. That's about it.

Hayao Miyazaki

I don't have the story finished and ready when we start work on a film. I usually don't have the time. So the story develops when I start drawing storyboards. I never know where the story will go but I just keeping working on the film as it develops. It's a dangerous way to make an animation film and I would like it to be different, but unfortunately, that's the way I work and everyone else is kind of forced to subject themselves to it.

Marcel Proust

We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the features of the person that we are and not of the person we should like to be.

Jorma Kaukonen

We do a wealth of stuff (live), drawing from over the years.

Kenneth Clark

It is often said that Leonardo drew so well because he knew about things; it is truer to say that he knew about things because he drew so well.

James Thurber

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

James Madison

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

Ellsworth Kelly

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

Ellsworth Kelly

My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good.

Ellsworth Kelly

All my work begins with drawings.

Ellsworth Kelly

I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line.

All of these factors are drawing in fund buying.

Henri Matisse

I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.

Henri Matisse

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

Henri Matisse

Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

Hilary Duff

I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

Naomi Wolf

In drawing attention to the physical characteristics of women leaders, they can be dismissed as either too pretty or too ugly. The net effect is to prevent women's identification with the issues. If the public women is stigmatized as too 'pretty,' she's a threat, a rival--or simply not serious; if derided as too 'ugly,' one risks tarring oneself with the same brush by identifying oneself with her agenda.