Drawing Quotes - Page 17

• An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but everything that happens to me, that I can affect, or that affects me.

  Jacques Derrida

  Self, Portraits, Portraiture

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• Compare constantly, lines and angles... Hold looking-glass before your model and your drawing. Take a second's glance only, and see if the impression be the same. If it be not, ask, 'What is the difference?

  William Morris Hunt

  Differences, Glasses, Lines

  William Morris Hunt (1976). “William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing”, Dover Pubns

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• Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.

  Adam Gopnik

  Player, Risk, Bending

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• Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.

  Adam Gopnik

  Art, Skeletons, Skills

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• Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Wall, Ideas

  "Sol LeWitt by Saul Ostrow". Interview with Saul Ostrow, bombmagazine.org. October 1, 2003.

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• I was always into noir. When I lived in Vermont I was drawing stuff that looked like an amateur doing 'Sin City'. When I first got to New York I was swiftly informed that they only did guys in tights.

  Frank Miller

  New York, Sin City, Cities

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

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• It is the brushwork of the right value and color which should produce the drawing.

  Camille Pissarro

  Color, Should, Produce

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• You are not to think of painting as something separate from drawing.

  Kimon Nicolaides

  Thinking, Painting

  Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.213, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When we use numbers we are using symbols, and it is only when we transfer them to life that they become actualities. The same is true with drawing and painting. They are to be learned, not as rules, but as actualities. Then the rules become appropriate.

  Kimon Nicolaides

  Numbers, Use, Painting

  Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Some drawings are better than others... Some are utterly spoiled... I keep them all. I find a use sometimes even for the worst drawing... But their chief use is to mortify one's conceit, to show how thoroughly incompetent it is possible to be, and to shame one into better ways.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Failure, Use, Way

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• A mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Mistake, Eye, Difficult

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• Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to retain it. He must advance or fall behind. Without practice he will forget; his eye will fail him; and his hand will deny its master.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Fall, Eye, Successful

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• Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that... awakens in me a passionate desire to inhabit it, as though I were to feel more at home in it than in myself.

  Jean Helion

  Home, Passionate Desire, Sometimes

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• For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.

  Robert Genn

  Spontaneity, Tyranny, Freshness

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• If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Photography, Art, Powerful

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• I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views and they must all be equally good.

  Benvenuto Cellini

  Art, Eight, Views

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• A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Men, Creating, Giving

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.18, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way." ... "Surely a better time must be drawing nigh when godlike human beings will become truly humane, and learn to put their animal fellow mortals in their hearts instead of on their backs or in their dinners.

  John Muir

  Heart, Animal, Glimpse

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• We seem to know when to 'tap the heart.' Others have hit the intellect. We can hit them in all emotional way. Those who appeal to the intellect only appeal to a very limited group. The real thing behind this is: we are in the motion picture business, only we are drawing them instead of photographing them.

  Walt Disney

  Real, Heart, Emotional

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• My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office.

  Ralph Allen

  Art, Father, Office

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• Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified.

  Maxwell Perkins

  Art, Writing, Justified

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• I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found... that, having done a drawing of souls in Purgatory for the Bishop of St. Gata, he, in order to spend less, commissioned another painter to do the painting using my work. If I were a man, I can't imagine it would have turned out this way.

  Artemisia Gentileschi

  Men, Order, People

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• I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid.

  David Salle

  Kids, Color, Nine

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There was about six months when I was absorbing other stuff and not drawing very much. After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.

  Bryan Lee O'Malley

  Fun, Long, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't want to spend my entire life drawing talking heads. It seems like a waste of everyone's time.

  Bryan Lee O'Malley

  Talking, Want, Waste

  Source: www.avclub.com

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