The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood.
Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.
Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
The teacher showed us how to see proportions, relationships, light and shadow, negative space, and space between space - something I never noticed before! In one week, I went from not knowing how to draw to sketching a detailed portrait. It literally changed the way I see things.
There is only one right way to draw... physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses.
Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.
A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
What do drawings mean to me? I really don't know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don't think happens with any other activity.
Pure drawing is an abstraction.
A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.
My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.
Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.
Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend they'll last forever.
The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
To see the human condition in the old woman, in the child, in the model on the stand, in that particular human being, and to let the hand trace it, this act of adoration is called, 'drawing from life.
When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.
All good and genuine draftsmen draw according to the picture inscribed in their minds, and not according to nature.
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