Drawing Quotes - Page 33

• I always loved singing, but I thought it was like drawing - just something you do in your own little corner to calm yourself down. But when my friend, the French songwriter Etienne Daho, listened to my songs, he was so moved that told me that I had to do a demo, share them with the world.

  Lou Doillon

  Song, Singing, World

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• I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving bits of wood - I've carved two of my guitars.

  Lou Doillon

  Writing, Guitar, Two

  "Lou Doillon love and finds her voice". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 7, 2012.

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• I was raised by drag queens, practically ... my mother died when I was four-years-old, so I was effectively raised by a bunch of different people. A lot of those people were friends of my sister, Kathleen, who had all these gay friends. She would baby-sit me everyday, and she would take me over to her friend's houses with all kinds of things going on: tucking, and eyebrow drawing, waxing, all sorts of things. I was literally raised by gay men.

  Ellen Pompeo

  Mother, Baby, Queens

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• Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Past, Shadow, Paper

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• Awareness of having better things to do with their lives is the secret to immunizing our children against false values--whether presented on television or in "real life." The child who finds fulfillment in music or reading or cooking or swimming or writing or drawing is not as easily convinced that he needs recognition or power or some "high" to feel worthwhile.

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Children, Real, Reading

  Polly Berrien Berends (1987). “Whole child, whole parent”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Draw, as much and as often as you can. When drawing lies fallow, the skill diminishes.

  Gene Black

  Lying, Skills, Draws

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• In times of stress drawing is a way of relieving tension.

  Gene Black

  Stress, Way, Tension

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• My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this gap where I was doing graffiti in high school and making as much [traditional] art.

  Alec Monopoly

  Mom, Art, School

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• I do feel like no matter what you're doing, whether it's music or writing a play or a poem or drawing a picture or painting something, that you're speaking to what is it you want to express, what is it you want to see.

  J. J. Abrams

  Writing, Play, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I threw [Picasso's] drawing on the floor and in doing so, threw away about £50m.

  Brian Blessed

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I am unable to comment on who may or may not be Banksy, but anyone described as 'good at drawing' doesn't sound like Banksy to me.

  Banksy

  Sound, May, Be Good

  "Graffiti artist Banksy SPOTTED for second time in a month - this time in Lake District bistro" by Jeremy Armstrong, www.mirror.co.uk. January 27, 2015.

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• Mitt Romney has a new fundraising gimmick. If you donate $3 or more to his campaign, your name will be entered into a drawing to win a dinner with Mitt Romney and Donald Trump. If you donate more than $10, you get to sit at a different table.

  Jay Leno

  Winning, Names, Fundraising

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• The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Way, Painting, Best Way

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• Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Knows, Do You Know

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1612, Delphi Classics

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• Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.

  DMX

  Boys, And Love, Taste

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• Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?

  Edwin Catmull

  Art, Organization, Needs

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• We cannot be content with an evangelism which does not lead to the drawing of converts into the church, nor with a church order whose principle of cohesion is a superficial social camaraderie instead of a spiritual fellowship with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

  John Stott

  Spiritual, Jesus, Father

  John Stott (2015). “TNTC Letters of John”, p.54, SPCK

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• Primitive, naive drawing can also be good drawing but it's hard to pull off. I don't think most submitters realize that.

  Robert Mankoff

  Thinking, Realizing, Be Good

  "Ask the Author Live: Robert Mankoff on the Cartoon Issue". The New Yorker Interview, www.newyorker.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Sometimes you're noodling around with a sketch and something incongruous in the drawing calls forth the caption and other times you think of a line and just have to find a place for it. A cartoon with a caption like "I don't want to live forever, but I sure as hell don't want to be dead forever either" sprang into my head and I just had to find the right venue for it which was an old couple talking to each other.

  Robert Mankoff

  Couple, Thinking, Talking

  "Ask the Author Live: Robert Mankoff on the Cartoon Issue". The New Yorker Interview, www.newyorker.com. October 21, 2011.

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• For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique. The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know - apart from the more obvious sensual ones - is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols. Making an idea into an emotion.

  Adam Gopnik

  Coffee, Unique, Ideas

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Years, Two, Realizing

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.72, New Directions Publishing

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• Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper.

  Eduardo Souto de Moura

  Pieces, World, Paper

  Eduardo Souto de Moura (2005). “Eduardo Souto de Moura: 1995-2005 : la naturalidad de las cosas”

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• There is a rumour that I can't draw and never could. This is probably because I work so much with models. Models are one of the most beautiful design tools, but I still do the finest drawings you can imagine.

  Jørn Utzon

  Beautiful, Design, Tools

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• It is not our heads or our bodies which we must bring together, but our hearts. . . . Humanity. . . is building its composite brain beneath our eyes. May it not be that tomorrow, through the logical and biological deepening of the movement drawing it together, it will find its heart, without which the ultimate wholeness of its power of unification can never be achieved?

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Heart, Eye, Humanity

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• In a way, the political cartoon drawings are things that are small and have humor and a childhood aesthetic and are often stronger to spread an opinion.

  Camille Henrot

  Childhood, Political, Cartoon

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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