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• Scilurus on his death-bed, being about to leave four-score sons surviving, offered a bundle of darts to each of them, and bade them break them. When all refused, drawing out one by one, he easily broke them, thus teaching them that if they held together, they would continue strong; but if they fell out and were divided, they would become weak.

  Plutarch

  Strong, Teaching, Son

  Plutarch, William Watson Goodwin (1874). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.190

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• I always urged my contemporaries to look for interest and inspiration to the development and study of drawing, but they would not listen. They thought the road to salvation lay by the way of colour.

  Edgar Degas

  Inspiration, Looks, Development

  Edgar Degas' remark to Walter Sickert (1885), as quoted in "Post-Impressionism and Cubism" by Walter Sickert in "Pall Mall Gazette", March 11, 1914.

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• Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.

  Odilon Redon

  World, Ambiguous, Transport

  "Great Paintings of the World". Book by Jean-François Guillou, p. 190, 2000.

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• It is one of history's most mocking ironies that the German customs union, which set out to dominate Europe and conquer Britain in the form of Bismarckian or Hitlerian military force, has at last vanquished the victor by drawing Britain into a Zollverein which comprises Western Europe and aspires to comprise the Mediterranean as well. If the ghosts of the Hohenzollerns come back to haunt this planet, they must find a lot to laugh at.

  Enoch Powell

  Military, Europe, Laughing

  "Enoch Powell on 1992". Book by Enoch Powell, p. 93. Speech in Grimsby, 1989.

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• There's no denying that Caruso came with a voice?that Beethoven came with music in his soul, Picasso was drawing like an angel in the crib.You're born with it.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Angel, Voice, Soul

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• This is to show the world that I can paint like Titian. [A big drawing of a rectangle] Only technical details are missing.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Missing, Details, World

  "Hyperspace : A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension" by Michio Kaku, (p. 137), 1995.

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• This absence of similarity among military questions naturally brings out the inability of memory to solve them; also the sterility of invariable forms, such as figures, geometrical drawings ( épures ), plans ( schémas ), etc. One only right solution imposes itself:;: namely, the application, varying according to circumstances, of fixed principles.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Memories, Military, Inability

  Ferdinand Foch (1920). “The Principles of War”

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• Personally I would like to have pupils, a studio, pass on my love to them, work with them, without teaching them anything.. ..A convent, a monastery, a phalanstery of painting where one could train together.. ..but no programme, no instruction in painting.. ..drawing is still alright, it doesn't count, but painting - the way to learn is to look at the masters, above all at nature, and to watch other people painting.

  Paul Cezanne

  Teaching, People, Together

  "Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne: A Memoir with Conversations". Book by Joachim Gasquet, Thames and Hudson, London, p. 124, in: 'What I know or have seen of his life', 1991.

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• The experienced physician, mechanic, or physiologist looking at a wound, an engine, a microscopic preparation, "sees" things the novice does not see. If both, experts and laymen, were asked to make exact copies of what they see, their drawings would be quite different.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Preparation, Novices, Physicians

  Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Visual Thinking”, p.302, Univ of California Press

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• In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What is a black-and-white drawing but a convention to which the beholder has become so accustomed that with his mind's eye he sees a complete equivalent in the translation from nature?

  Eugene Delacroix

  Art, Mean, Eye

  "Journal of Delacroix". Book by Hubert Wellington, translated by Lucy Norton, p.334, 1980.

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• Be sure that Christ is not behind you, but before, calling and drawing you on. This is the liberty, the beautiful liberty of Christ. Claim your glorious privilege in the name of a disciple; be no more a servant, when Christ will own you as a friend.

  Horace Bushnell

  Beautiful, Names, Liberty

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• I have always directed my attempts at the figurative representation of objects by way of summary and not very descriptive brushstrokes, diverging greatly from the real objective measurements of things, and this has led many people to talk about childish drawing.. ..this position of seeing them (the objects) without looking at them too much, without focussing more attention on them than any ordinary man would in normal everyday life..

  Jean Dubuffet

  Real, Men, People

  "Prospectus et tous écrits suivants". Book by Jean Dubuffet, Vol. II, p. 105, 1967.

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• With respect to the use of this sparkling coloured material (butterfly wings around 1955, fh) - the constituent parts of which remain indistinguishable - with the aim of producing a very vivid effect of scintillation, I realised that, for me, this responds to needs of the same order as those that formerly led me, in many drawings and paintings, to organize my lines and patches of colour so that the objects represented would meld into everything around them, so that the result would be a sort of continuous, universal soup with an intensive flavour of life.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Butterfly, Order, Wings

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• I was asking questions which nobody else had asked before, because nobody else had actually looked at certain structures. Therefore, as I will tell, the advent of the computer, not as a computer but as a drawing machine, was for me a major event in my life. That's why I was motivated to participate in the birth of computer graphics, because for me computer graphics was a way of extending my hand, extending it and being able to draw things which my hand by itself, and the hands of nobody else before, would not have been able to represent.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Hands, Asking Questions, Machines

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• What actually happened was that Rolling Stone paid me fifteen hundred dollars for the use of all the drawings - about twenty four of them - and then offered to buy the originals from me, which my agent urged 'was a good move!'. He sold the whole damn treasure trove to Jann Wenner for the princely sum of sixty dollars per drawing. I rue the day I let him convince me.

  Ralph Steadman

  Moving, Twenties, Rolling

  "The Joke's Over". Book by Ralph Steadman, 2006.

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• Give heed to the cause of the holy Roman Church, mother of all churches and teacher of the faith, whom you by the order of God, have consecrated by your blood. Against the Roman Church, you warned, lying teachers are rising, introducing ruinous sects, and drawing upon themselves speedy doom. Their tongues are fire, a restless evil, full of deadly poison. They have bitter zeal, contention in their hearts, and boast and lie against the truth.

  Pope Leo X

  Mother, Teacher, Lying

  "Exsurge Domine". Papal bull by Pope Leo X, 1520.

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• No man is quite so much a hero in the dark as in broad daylight, in solitude as in society, in the gloom of the churchyard as in the blaze of the drawing-room. The season and the place may be such as to oppress the stoutest heart with a mysterious awe, which, if not fear, is near akin to it.

  William H. Prescott

  Hero, Heart, Dark

  WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT (1858). “BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL MISCELLANIES”, p.588

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• The method of producing comics in Japan is very hectic, but it's also rewarding because it's possible to do both the story and art all by yourself. In this way, it's possibly to bring out one's individuality. If this idea appeals to you, I call on you to try drawing your own manga.

  Akira Toriyama

  Art, Ideas, Japan

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• We have entered a new and different world-richly interconnected and radically multicentric-in which the traditional holders of power have to move over and make room for new stakeholders, new players, and new leaders of many kinds. Nobody in Charge, drawing on the learnings of a wise and widely experienced public executive, offers some priceless insights into how things have changed, where they are now, and where we may be going next in this bewildering terrain.

  Walter Truett Anderson

  Wise, Moving, Player

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• A gift, like a good friend drawing a personal road map out of the crazy busy swirl of our overloaded lives.

  Brigid Schulte

  Crazy, Good Friend, Maps

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• [Drawing should be] a journey of pleasure. Each step must present to the travellers' view objects that are eminently interesting, varied in their appearances, and attracting to such a degree as to excite in each individual thus happily employed the desire of knowing all respecting all he sees.

  John James Audubon

  Journey, Views, Knowing

  John James Audubon, Christoph Irmscher (1999). “Writings and drawings”

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• To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

  Henri Matisse

  Ideas, Precision, Draws

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1973). “Matisse on art”

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• If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.

  Henri Matisse

  Color, World, Firsts

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• Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell asleep during Obama's speech. She woke up with the other justices drawing a gavel on her face.

  Conan O'Brien

  Justice, Ruth, Speech

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• Today is Earth Day. Environmentalists spent the day drawing attention to the Earth, while the Earth just spent the day checking Facebook to see which planets wished it a happy Earth Day.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Earth Day, Attention, Today

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