Drawing Quotes - Page 31

• The "just say no" campaign at this point is a lot like drawing sea-monsters over certain unexplored areas of the map and expecting people to stay away. It may work for some, but explorers live for this kind of thing.

  Terence McKenna

  Sea, People, Monsters

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• To stick to the present and not let it pass without drawing some profit from it, that's what I think duty is. ...let us perservere as far as we can rather today than tomorrow.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Thinking, Sticks, Today

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• The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Civilization, Cities, Benefits

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.372, University of Georgia Press

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• The uncertain and imprecise way of constructing a drawing is sometimes a model of how to construct meaning... The ethical and moral questions...in our heads seem to rise to the surface as a consequence of the process

  William Kentridge

  Way, Moral, Sometimes

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• But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wind, East, May

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.461, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Happiness requires changing yourself and changing your world. It requires pursuing your own goals and fitting in with others. Different people at different times in their lives will benefit from drawing more heavily on one approach or the other.

  Jonathan Haidt

  People, Goal, Different

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.242, Basic Books

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• When you play guitar you are drawing a frame around a moment and saying to the listener, 'Here is how I want you to experience this. How you begin and end a solo is framing, How you structure a song is framing, how you present yourself onstage is framing. See every corner, not just the center, framing should heighten the impact of the art and give clarity to your vision.

  Philip Toshio Sudo

  Song, Art, Impact

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• Animation wasn't my love, but drawing was. I loved drawing, and when it came time to graduate from high school, I looked around and it was like, "Wow, I don't really want to study math. I don't really want to study science. I don't really want to study literature. Is there a place where I can go and draw cartoons?"

  Harland Williams

  School, Math, Cartoon

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I believe in spiritualism. It's like, when you listen to music or something and then you're sort of primed. If you're an artist, you're sort of primed and inspired, and you start drawing, you sort of have the spirit of what you're listening to, still in you. You just have sort of an inspiration.

  Daniel Johnston

  Believe, Inspiration, Artist

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I was writing songs, I always thought I'd make more of a career out of the drawings, the comics even more than the music.

  Daniel Johnston

  Song, Writing, Careers

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit of burnt wood was also good because I was drawing burnt wood with a piece of wood. I wanted to do black and white. After using color, I thought black and white would be good. You can have color in black and white. There is color in them, actually.

  David Hockney

  Black And White, Color, Ideas

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.

  David Hockney

  Years, Actors, Fifty

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.

  David Hockney

  Years, Painting, Has Beens

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, "Well, I don't have to talk much."

  David Hockney

  Doctors, Talking, Years

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• You don't expect everyone out there watching to believe that this cartoon is real, that this drawing has really come to life. But on some level, you do. You try to cast a spell. You want the world to feel real. It's a nerdy pursuit.

  Loren Bouchard

  Real, Believe, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• This is the problem with the way you educate your children. You don't want your young ones drawing their own conclusions. You want them to come to the same conclusions that you came to. Thus you doom them to repeat the mistakes to which your own conclusions led you.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Children, Mistake, Want

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• Anything that makes you feel good is always going to be drawing in more.

  John Gray

  Feel Good, Make You Feel Good, Feels

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• A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted.

  Herbert Simon

  Rivers, Decision, Complexes

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• I'd like to study the drawings of kids. That's where the truth is, without a doubt.

  Andre Derain

  Kids, Doubt, Study

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• If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must somehow position the camera between his shirt and his skin. Whereas with pencil drawing, it is up to the artist to have an interior silence.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Artist, Silence, Skins

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• Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.

  John Henry Newman

  Spiritual, Prayer, Pulse

  Blessed John Henry Newman, Aeterna Press “Parochial and Plain Sermons”, Aeterna Press

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• The work, I suppose, is made in the editing, whereby I make literally hundreds of drawings, and then a much smaller percentage of those become the finished work.

  David Shrigley

  Editing, Made, Percentages

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Almost every cartoonist, when he's sitting down to draw a funny face, if you watch him closely, his mouth is gonna curl to the expression that he's drawing. But when I would write a story - I know it's going to sound almost ridiculous and infantile - I would, in a way, start living it.

  Al Jaffee

  Writing, Expression, Sitting Down

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• I started drawing at a very young age. Writing a story wasn't satisfying, but to actually draw our own world - it's like controlling your own dreams.

  Daniel Clowes

  Dream, Writing, Age

  "Clowes Encounter: An Interview With Daniel Clowes". www.motherjones.com. May 13, 2010.

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• Music isn't just for professionals. We delegate all of our music and our dancing and our art to professionals. It's silly. We should be doing our own dancing and drawing.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Art, Silly, Dancing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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