Drawing Quotes - Page 10

• I am only an artist, my job is to make drawings not to make sense.

  William Kentridge

  Jobs, Artist, Make Sense

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• If this Constitution does not have the support of the people of Europe and on reflection is not deemed to signpost a structure of Europe of the twenty-first century, then we simply have to go back to the drawing board.

  Gisela Stuart

  Reflection, Europe, People

  Gisela Stuart (2003). “The Making of Europe's Constitution”

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• It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.

  Bram Stoker

  Eye, Sight, Dust

  Bram Stoker (2006). “Dracula - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.333, Prestwick House Inc

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• I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.

  Mike Thompson

  Thinking, People, Luck

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• Doing Tim's film is always going to be the most pleasure. Let me just put it that way. So, without drawing favorites one way or the other, getting back with him and doing Mars Attacks! was certainly a special treat.

  Danny Elfman

  Special, Mars, Way

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• He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul and where it all really happened, ... The Day of the Jackal.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Istanbul, Spy, Rooms

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• Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.

  Chuck Jones

  Keys, Mind, Animation

  Chuck Jones, Maureen Furniss (2005). “Chuck Jones: Conversations”, p.166, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.

  Gerald Scarfe

  Movement, Kind, Animation

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• Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.

  Alison Bechdel

  Black And White, Hair, Gray

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• During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and "style" as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older.

  Chris Ware

  Change, School, Texas

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. December 31, 2003.

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• If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you'll probably get the humor in the audio part.

  Kid Koala

  Humor, Audio, Ifs

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• The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life.

  Ray Romano

  Humor, Talking, Guy

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• We will be drawing down some troops. If the president wants to try to turn that into the beginning of a success, he actually, I think, has some opportunity.

  Stuart Rothenberg

  Opportunity, Thinking, Trying

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• Move forward. Keep drawing myself. I will look at the world in the eyes and run forward.

  Minzy

  Running, Moving, Eye

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• When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Pieces, Stylist, Tablets

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• Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists.

  Adrian McKinty

  Australia, Novelists, Noir

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• Professors typically spend their time in meetings about planning, policy, proposals, fund-raising, consulting, interviewing, traveling, and so forth, but spend relatively little time at their drawing boards. As a result, they lose touch with the substance of their rapidly developing subject. They lose the ability to design; they lose sight of what is essential; and they resign themselves to teach academically challenging puzzles.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Sight, Design, Challenges

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• I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans, and, besides, has there ever been a building that didn't look great as a model?

  Paul Goldberger

  Looks, Building, Reviews

  "Apple's New Headquarters" by Paul Goldberger, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2011.

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• If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you’re drawing it.

  Sergio Aragones

  Thinking, Way, Complicated

  "Ask Sergio". sergioaragones.com.

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• Man, fountains pen are a pain to use, drawing backgrounds is a also a pain... Drawing manga really is a pain. In short living is a pain... I want to become a cheesburger

  Hideaki Sorachi

  Pain, Men, Use

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• Rohini Mohan read. While she did, I sketched her. She writes with such beauty and violence, and it seemed like the best way to listen was to really watch her, in the way that only drawing someone lets me do.

  Molly Crabapple

  Writing, Watches, Way

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• If real Satanism were allowed the kind of television time that Christianity has now, the kind of drawing out and patience that interviewers give sports figures, or the kind of coverage that a baseball game gets, Christianity would be completely eliminated in a few short months. If people were allowed to see the complete, unbiased truth, even for 60 minutes, it would be too dangerous. There would be no comparison.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Sports, Baseball, Real

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• How dare you little jabroni come onto The Rock shows Smackdown and run your mouth about how your the game, well The Rock says, if you are the game then you quite frankly you need to go back to the drawing board cause your game absolutely sucks!

  Dwayne Johnson

  Funny, Running, Rocks

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• No doubt exists that rent seeking in general leads to serious inefficiencies in this direct sense, but its indirect damage is even worse. Drawing the bulk of intelligent and energetic people in society into activity that has no social product, or may have a negative social product, is more important in explaining the stagnation of these societies than the direct social cost of the rent seeking.

  Gordon Tullock

  Intelligent, People, Doubt

  Gordon Tullock, Gordon L. Brady, Arthur Seldon (2002). “Government Failure: A Primer in Public Choice”, p.49, Cato Institute

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• I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.

  Gerald Scarfe

  War, Vietnam, Very Sad

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