Drawing Quotes

• As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Practice, Perfect

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Inspiring, Photography, Meditation

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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• I'm just working with ideas in my head and with drawings that the artists did. And suddenly to see these things come to life in movies - it's just wonderful.

  Stan Lee

  Artist, Ideas, Wonderful

  "Comic book king Stan Lee loves the everyday superhero". Interview with B.J. Hammerstein, www.usatoday.com. May 17, 2013.

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• Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

  David Hockney

  Moving, Race, Mind

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• Everything starts from a dot.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Inspiring, Art, Dots

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• To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.

  Pablo Picasso

  Draws, Knows

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• To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw.

  Andrew Loomis

  Learning, Practice, Draws

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• Drawing is the honesty of art.

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  Art, Honesty

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• Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Color, Feelings, Reason

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• 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

  Looks, Paper, Way

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  Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

  John W. Gardner

  Life, Wisdom, Art

  "Cracking the Code of Our Physical Universe". Book by Matthew M. Radmanesh (p.269), May, 2006.

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• A line is a dot that went for a walk.

  Paul Klee

  Inspirational, Art, Dots

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• Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Treasure, May

  Georgia Illetschko, Michelangelo Buonarroti (2004). “I, Michelangelo”, Prestel Pub

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• Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.

  Edgar Degas

  Writing, Artist, Expression

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• It is not bright colors but good drawing that makes figures beautiful.

  Titian

  Beautiful, Color, Figures

  "The Quotable Artist". Book by Peggy Hadden, p. 32, 2002.

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• Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Creativity, Poetry

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• I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Thinking, Sketching, Sometimes

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent W. van Gogh (1970). “Vincent Van Gogh: Paintings and Drawings : Exhibition”

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• A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Cobwebs

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• Practice by drawing things large, as if equal in representation and reality. In small drawings every large weakness is easily hidden; in the large, the smallest weakness is easily seen.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Reality, Practice, Weakness

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• I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.

  David Hockney

  Teaching, Years, People

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• Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Thorough Knowledge, Perspective

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.42, GENERAL PRESS

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• Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.

  Keith Haring

  Art, Men, Magic

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.105, Penguin

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• The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.

  John Tukey

  Data, Unexpected, Diagrams

  John Wilder Tukey (1977). “Exploratory Data Analysis”, Pearson College Division

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• In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

  Pablo Picasso

  Sketching, Firsts

  "Picasso and Compan". Book by Gyula Brassaï, 1966.

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