Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Ellsworth Kelly

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

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.

The drawings in 'Portal' were actually me scribbling that stuff... I had a funny moment when I realized that someone gotten 'The cake is a lie' tattooed on themselves. It was really interesting to see my handwriting tattooed on another human being. That... that's odd.

Jesse Eisenberg

The scariest people to turn a movie over to are always the people who are drawing up the poster, because that's the first impression it's going to make. And very often it's portraying a very different film from the one the actors actually did.

Julia Child

Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

Jean Giraud

The comics were not only stories to enjoy; for me they were drawings that possessed me.

Jim Davis

Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing.

Eric Clapton

They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn't seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.

Jasper Johns

I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.

Irving Stone

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

Graeme Le Saux

Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.

Gwen John

I am going to do some drawings or paintings...in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something.

Fred Trueman

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

Vince Carter

I just wanted to push him out as far as I could and just stay down. He's good at that pump fake and drawing the foul late in the game. So I wanted to keep my hands up and make it a tough shot. If he makes it, he makes it.

Jack Kirby

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

It's a good drawing card. People stop and they look it over. Inevitably, they'll come up and touch it.

It's a five-color crayon drawing done in 1963 when Picasso was 76-years-old. It's one of his favorite subjects: A Picador in a bullfight.

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.

Andrew Whitworth

They just seemed to want it more than we did. We've got to get back to the drawing board.

They like to do a good job of getting inside and drawing fouls. We have to make sure we make them a perimeter team Friday night.

It may be his way of telling the generals to stop talking about drawing down the forces.

Jonathan Haidt

Happiness requires changing yourself and changing your world. It requires pursuing your own goals and fitting in with others. Different people at different times in their lives will benefit from drawing more heavily on one approach or the other.

Pierre Bonnard

And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done

Pierre Bonnard

You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.

Pierre Bonnard

Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.

Natsuki Takaya

Above and beyond drawing my creations, I try to incorporate some kind of message. I try not to end as merely a question but try to provide a conclusion within the work.

Jim Leach

Drawing on President Bush's reform plan, which would allow citizens to transfer part of their Social Security contributions into personal accounts, an alteration of the current system is needed to make necessary change.

Leon Battista Alberti

I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also models of wood or any other material. These... enable us to examine... the work as a whole... and, before continuing any further, to estimate the likely trouble and expense.