Drawing Quotes - Page 26

• The aim of human rights, if I may borrow a term from engineering, is to move beyond the design and drawing-board phase, to move beyond thinking and talking about the foundations stones - to laying those foundation stones, inch by inch, together.

  Mary Robinson

  Moving, Thinking, Rights

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• The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing. Whatever that is, it is what I want to do.

  Ellar Coltrane

  Things In Life, Creating, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• As an actor you bring some of your own experiences which can make things easier. You build off of it, but your imagination is always the best thing you have as far as creating things I think specifically for what that character is going through. But you're definitely drawing obviously upon things that you can connect to, and then you kind of mold the change that you're making into something that's right for the character.

  Vince Vaughn

  Character, Thinking, Creating

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I'm very artistic - I feel like ever since I was born I've been drawing. I actually have a picture in my room that I painted, and people are always like "Where did you buy that?" It's cool that people are impressed by it.

  Maddie Ziegler

  People, Rooms, Artistic

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Writing, Talking, Firsts

  "Conversation: Graphic Novelist, Director Marjane Satrapi". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. August 17, 2012.

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• Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.

  Susanna Clarke

  Habit, Observation, Teach

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.691, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

  Shahzia Sikander

  Practice, Imagination, Fundamentals

  "Artist Shahzia Sikander on how she draws" by Shahzia Sikander, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.

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• Drawing is the honesty of the art.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Honesty, Sketching

  "People" Magazine, September 27, 1976.

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• Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Real Education

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.138, A&C Black

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• Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.

  Paul Mellon

  Emotional, Oil, Finals

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• In drawing an inference or conclusion from facts proved, regard must always be had to the nature of the particular case, and the facility that appears to be afforded, either of explanation or contradiction. No person is to be required to explain or contradict, until enough has been proved to warrant a reasonable and just conclusion against him, in the absence of explanation or contradiction.

  Tony Abbott

  Facts, Absence, Enough

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• Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Art, Expression, Giving

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• Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement and by-play of the mind, but a co-ordinate power. Its work is unhappily styled fiction; for to idealize is to realize.

  C. A. Bartol

  Character, Class, Play

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• But after all, what have we to do with taverns? Real menace belongs to the drawing-room.

  E. M. Forster

  Real, Class, Society

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• As to the lawful pleasures of the mind, the heart, or the senses, indulge in them with gratitude and moderation, drawing up sometimes in order to punish yourself, without waiting to be forced to do so by necessity.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Gratitude, Heart, Order

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• It is not in our drawing-rooms that we should look to judge of the intrinsic worth of any style of dress. The street-car is a truer crucible of its inherent value.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Fashion, Judging, Car

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• The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the condition of the Negro is ever the cause for further discrimination.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Color, Lines, Causes

  Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass (2007). “Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, p.279, Courier Corporation

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• If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Color, Perspective

  "Diary of a Genius". Book by Salvador Dali, p. 81, 1964.

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• A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks besides you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near. His head is within our hand in his old way.

  Mary Carolyn Davies

  Dog, Autumn, Loss

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• Every individual, like a statue, develops in his life the laws of harmony, integrity, and freedom; or those of deformity, immorality, and bondage. Whether we wish to or not, we are all drawing our own pictures in the lives we are living.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Integrity, Law, Wish

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• I dont think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill.

  Toyin Odutola

  Thinking, Race, Needs

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• Boni de Castellane drawing his chins onto his chest; shiny boots, embroidered morning coat, white gloves with black piping, big tie, light vest, the overwashed, bleached impression - 'blanched' as cooks say of boiled vegetables. That was the opposite of a dandy whose stylishness would remain imperceptible to Americans. Boni's style was highly visible.

  Paul Morand

  Morning, Light, Vegetables

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• And as we live our lives we discover - drawing toward us the thin threads attached to each - what has been lost. I closed my eyes and tried to bring to mind as many beautiful lost things as I could. Drawing them closer, holding on to them.

  Haruki Murakami

  Beautiful, Eye, Mind

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• While it may not heighten our sympathy, wit widens our horizons by its flashes, revealing remote hidden affiliations and drawing laughter from far afield; humor, in contrast, strikes up fellow feeling, and though it does not leap so much across time and space, enriches our insight into the universal in familiar things, lending it a local habitation and a name.

  Marie Taylor Collins Swabey

  Funny, Sympathy, Laughter

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• We take as given the idea of distinction and the idea of indication, and that one cannot make an indication without drawing a distinction. We take therefore the form of distinction for the form.

  George Spencer-Brown

  Ideas, Form, Given

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