Drawing Quotes - Page 30

• My history shouts the power of the blood of Jesus. My presence demonstrates the absolute love, affection and purpose of God for my life. My future is drawing me into a hope-filled life that has a purpose of saying, 'on earth as it is in Heaven.'

  Bill Johnson

  Jesus, Blood, Heaven

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• I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs.

  Michelle Williams

  Wall, Home, Would Be

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

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• It is often said that Leonardo drew so well because he knew about things; it is truer to say that he knew about things because he drew so well.

  Kenneth Clark

  Said, Leonardo, Wells

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• I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.

  Peter Wright

  Life, Class, People

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• My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.

  James Thurber

  Ideas, Arguing, Has Beens

  Life Magazine Interview, March 14, 1960.

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• I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don't. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that.

  David Lloyd

  Artist, Talking, People

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• I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.

  Peter Wright

  Thinking, People, Meditation

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• I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.

  Francis Bacon

  Illustration, Would Be, Done

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• I drew pictures rapidly and with few lines, because I had to write most of the pieces, too, and couldn't monkey long with the drawings. The divine urge was no higher than that.

  James Thurber

  Writing, Long, Lines

  James Thurber, Harrison Kinney, Rosemary A. Thurber (2002). “The Thurber letters: the wit, wisdom, and surprising life of James Thurber”, Simon and Schuster

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• The difference between what we see and a sheet of white paper with a few thin lines on it is very great. Yet this abstraction is one which we seem to have adopted almost instinctively at an early stage in our development, not only in Neolithic graffiti but in early Egyptian drawings. And in spite of its abstract character, the outline is responsive to the least tremor of sensibility.

  Kenneth Clark

  Character, White, Differences

  Kenneth Clark (1973). “The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art”

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• Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.

  Julien Green

  Happiness, Dark, Yesterday

  Julien Green (1964). “Diary, 1928-1957”, London, Collins

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• When I draw it feels very natural - intuitive. I don't think about it, I just do it. My visual vocabulary is self-selecting and second nature to me. Writing is harder for me. It's something I struggle with. Drawing always comes first.

  Arthur Jones

  Struggle, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I went to the archives to see what Dumbo work there was, not for current film, but just for my love of animation. And I couldn't believe all the artwork the guys had done to find this universal empathy to Dumbo. There was one drawing where they used his ears as a sign: "Eat at Joes!" These guys were continually searching and digging to see what that is.

  Peter Sohn

  Believe, Empathy, Guy

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought for a while that it was going to be the major movement. But people always drift back to realism. I guess there is a certain security in that.

  Brice Marden

  People, Culture, Caves

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• Walt had a seat-of-the-pants approach on what he wanted musically. We kind of 'read' the boss and had a very high batting average, but there were occasions when he felt we had just written the wrong piece for the situation he wanted. We invariably listened to what he wanted - he was very descriptive in what he wanted and we could read him. We'd go back to the drawing board and work out what he wanted. He was a great inspiration, but a tough taskmaster.

  Richard Sherman

  Inspiration, Average, Work Out

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Color, Records, Lines

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2007.

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• When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it all.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Teenager, Listening, Sitting

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2007.

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• I seemed to have instinctually a strong idea of how the strip had to be written from the beginning. That changed too, but it was more in the direction of where it was headed. I didn't have a clue as to the drawing style, because the drawing style that I was groomed on from the beginning was newspaper comic strips, which were much more conventional.

  Jules Feiffer

  Strong, Ideas, Style

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2008.

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• I like drawing. I like to spend the day drawing, the process is important for me. Drawing is a just a pleasure and it's nice to keep it going.

  Tomm Moore

  Nice, Important, Pleasure

  "Handcrafting Magic: Dir. Tomm Moore on His Blissfully Beautiful Film ‘Song of the Sea’". Interview with Carlos Aguilar, www.indiewire.com. December 18, 2014.

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• I did the drawing and writing - for five years. I made a lot of short films the whole while and I made a promise to myself in front of the mirror that I would stop drawing when I signed my first contract for a feature film.

  Patrice Leconte

  Writing, Mirrors, Years

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I think the best thing I learned from drawing comics is that it's a great exercise in concision.

  Patrice Leconte

  Exercise, Thinking, Best Things

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The novels have done so well because the drawings are abstract, black-and-white. This adds to the universality of the story. "Persepolis" also has dreamlike moments, and the drawings help maintain cohesion and consistency.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Black And White, Consistency, Add

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Writing, Reality, Firsts

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The most natural thing for us is drawing. The characters [in Persepolis] are hand drawn. We're not technical people. We don't know how to type.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Character, Hands, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• You know when somebody really knows what they're drawing from and you can feel it when you see the movie.

  Edward Norton

  Feels, Knows

  "Interview: 'Leaves of Grass' Star Edward Norton and Director Tim Blake Nelson". Interview with Landon Palmer, filmschoolrejects.com. March 28, 2010.

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