Drawing Quotes - Page 37

• I think anything that you can use to connect is fine. For some people it's meditation. For some people it's yoga. For some people, it's running. For some people, it's affirmations. For me, it's photographs and drawings, and affirmations, and statues, and crystals. I fill my writing space and I fill my home with symbols of what I think of as higher energy.

  Wayne Dyer

  Running, Yoga, Home

  "The Power of Intention with Dr. Wayne Dyer". Interview with Tim Miejan, www.edgemagazine.net. September 1, 2004.

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• Yeah, I mean I am somebody that makes an effort to go and see a lot of exhibitions, painting, drawing, sculpture.

  PJ Harvey

  Mean, Effort, Sculpture

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• I buy mainly Beatles bootlegs and stuff like that. I'm hoping I can go there today. My dad buys my drawings and he re-sells them for quite a bit more and then he puts the money in my savings. I just draw all the time and he buys and I get a lot money [laughs]. It's great. My dad's my best manager I ever had. If I get richer, I'd like to be able to buy more of the real collectible Beatles things. I just need a little more money to be a higher class collector [laughs].

  Daniel Johnston

  Dad, Real, Class

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• When I'm doing a drawing, I get lots of ideas I use them in my songs, even. I do a lot of drawings because that's where I get most of my spending cash and I just always have to have new records, to get something to satisfy my listening pleasure.

  Daniel Johnston

  Song, Ideas, Listening

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• Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature, drawing no line between what is spiritual and what is not.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Lines, Live Simply

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• There are only five things really worth drawing; four of them are pretty girls and the fifth is cats.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Girl, Cat, Four

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• I'm not a sculptor; I'm a hard-edged model maker. You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from 'Star Wars' - especially parts from 'Star Wars' - I can do this stuff all day long. It's exactly how I made my living for 15 years.

  Adam Savage

  Stars, War, Years

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• I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

  R. L. Stine

  Writing, Kids, Years

  "R.L. Stine Talks New Book, 'Red Rain'". Interview with Jackie Nash, October 10, 2012.

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• I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades.

  Meg Cabot

  Notebook, Home, Kids

  "Meg Cabot's teen escapism and empowered heroines". Interview with Ashley Strickland, www.cnn.com. May 12, 2011.

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• I've always believed that you have to have the skills before you destroy the skills. If you want to be crude, be crude, but don't be crude because you don't know how to do it, because you're not perfect at drawing and pattern-cutting.

  Louise Wilson

  Cutting, Skills, Perfect

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• God in heaven holds each person by a string. When you sin, you cut the string. Then God ties it up again. Making a knot, bringing you a little closer to Him. Again and again your sins cut the string and with each knot God keeps drawing you closer and closer.

  Anthony de Mello

  Cutting, Ties, Heaven

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.116, Image

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• I see caring for somebody as a creative outlet. I like drawing little faces and writing little stories and hiding them in places. I don't think it's that hard to be thoughtful, especially when you do care about the person.

  Channing Tatum

  Writing, Caring, Thoughtful

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• I wasn't writing, I wasn't drawing, and personality-wise, I was just completely arrogant. I'm not trying to be overly apologetic for my behavior - I wasn't evil. The lifestyle I had was one that lent itself to becoming more and more self-involved.

  Patti Smith

  Wise, Writing, Self

  "The Private World of Patti Smith". Interview with Joan Juliet Buck, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 30, 2015.

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• It wasn't that I wanted to be an artist. But when I took my first drawing class with the painter Doug Ohlson, I could never finish a drawing.

  Lynne Tillman

  Artist, Class, Firsts

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I did large drawings of couples having sex! Men and woman enjoying intercourse and oral sex in a Madison Avenue Gallery? That was the first time I broke a barrier that made me think, some idiot is going to blow my brains out for sure.

  Betty Dodson

  Sex, Couple, Thinking

  "Betty Dodson's Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.

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• When I found out after that first successful exhibition that the gallery wanted me to do another show like the first one, I come out two years later with four 6-foot drawings of classical nudes masturbating. The gallery director flipped the freak out!

  Betty Dodson

  Successful, Years, Two

  "Betty Dodson's Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.

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• I would love to collaborate on a graphic novel with an artist - I'm terrible at drawing but I really love that genre.

  Matthea Harvey

  Artist, Graphic Novels, Genre

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Sometimes we make assumptions about influence when similarities between two writers' work are so strong, but they're still just assumptions. Some things are sort of zeitgeist-y. There's a collective consciousness and we're all drawing from it.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Strong, Two, Assumption

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As far as being territorial about one's own life, that's a mistake for ANY writer. All writers everywhere, in every genre, are drawing from their life and the lives of those around them for "material." Memoirs just make transparent and even amplify that activity.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Mistake, Amplify, Genre

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The truth is the music is really an incredible personal part of the movie. When I was drawing the storyboards for Watchmen, I had just gone to my iPod and was grabbing music. It took me about two weeks to really put my playlist together. But once I had it, I kinda just put my headsets on and drew for five months. But that music's the music that's in the movie.

  Zack Snyder

  Two, Ipods, Together

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I played a lot of music all throughout my life, actually, but in high school I was in marching band and all the bands. So, I was big into music, I was big into drawing and sculpture, and all these different things.

  Kirsten Lepore

  School, Different, Band

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As far as CGI and hand-drawn animation, I consider them both nothing more than tools for drawing pictures, the same as crayons or oils. Which is why, to me, the most important thing is what it is you are drawing, and in the themes that I depict, I think hand-drawing is the most effective.

  Mamoru Hosoda

  Thinking, Hands, Oil

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The process of producing a project is one long string of delight and anxiety, but I think the real thrill of animation would have to be drawing the pictures.

  Mamoru Hosoda

  Real, Thinking, Long

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I did gardening and cooking and drawing and reading to try take the pressure off the music - just being eclectic and putting the fun back in and bringing more innocence in again is really important.

  Bat for Lashes

  Fun, Reading, Cooking

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• My work often begins as little internal dares, wondering if I can pull something off. So I spent a few years drawing these stories together, trying to build a Pangea of what began as separate continents.

  Anthony Marra

  Years, Together, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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