Famous Quotes & Sayings

Odilon Redon

Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.

Mary Leakey

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.

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.

Jackson Pollock

With experience it seems to be possible to control the flow of paint, to a great extent, and I don't use - I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident... it's quite different from working, say, from a still life where you set up objects and work directly from them. I do have a general notion of what I'm about and what the results will be. I approach painting in the same sense as one approaches drawing, that is, it's direct.

Louise Bourgeois

I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.

Jim Woodring

I have a personal definition of cartooning, which is, simply, "imaginative drawing." Anything you're drawing that is not in front of you but is a mental construct that you want to express in a drawing is, to me, a cartoon.

Jim Woodring

That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.

Jim Woodring

It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.

John James Audubon

My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.

John Howe

Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

John Howe

What can make your work interesting is as much who you are, as how you draw.

John Howe

Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation.

Rafael Moneo

Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

Siegfried Sassoon

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

John Singer Sargent

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

Seth MacFarlane

I still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis.

Seth Godin

Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

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.

Helen Frankenthaler

We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.

Pat Oliphant

Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.

James Jeans

...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of their own inner consciousness and without drawing to any appreciable extent on their experience of the outer world.

James Purefoy

One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.

Nicole Krauss

The misery of other people is only an abstraction something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one's own experiences. But as it stands, true empathy remains impossible. And so long as it is, people will continue to suffer the pressure of their seemingly singular existence.

Nassau William Senior

But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.

The key was getting our feet moving and drawing penalties. We knew that special teams would be the difference.

Bill Thomas

This hearing is drawing a line. There are no more tomorrows,

Philip Roth

That can happen when people die, the argument with them drops away and people so flawed while they were drawing breath that at times they were all but unbearable now assert themselves in the most appealing way, and what was least to your liking the day before yesterday becomes in the limousine behind the hearse a cause not only for sympathetic amusement but for admiration

Well, back to the drawing board.

Maynard James Keenan

The process that we go through in recording with Tool is very organic, but at the same time it is very thought out. There is a very left-brain process of dissecting what we're doing and drawing from source material; it's very research oriented and esoteric.

John French Sloan

A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues.

John French Sloan

There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.