Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John Singer Sargent

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

James Purefoy

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

Louise Bourgeois

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

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.

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.

The earliest we can prove me drawing is 10-months-old.

Bill Thomas

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

You go back to the drawing board, start all over again,

I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

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

Scott Adams

I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.

Scott Adams

One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's something about that that keeps it fresh to the viewer.

Thomas Jefferson

The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.

Robert Henri

Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.

Robert Henri

You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.

Robert Henri

Has your drawing the meaning you saw in the model at first?

Robert Henri

Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.

Robert Henri

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.

Robert Henri

Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.

Robert Henri

Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.