Painting And Drawing Quotes

• Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.

  Edgar Degas

  Writing, Artist, Expression

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• Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  Art, Drawing, Sketching

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• Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Creativity, Drawing

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• In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artist, Drawing, Sketching

  Vincent van Gogh, Dorothee Hansen, Lawrence W. Nichols, Judy Sund, Kunsthalle Bremen (2003). “Van Gogh: fields”

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

  David Hockney

  Years, Drawing, Painting

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

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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, Drawing, Creating

  Source: collider.com

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• When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

  David Hockney

  Drawing, Painting, Realising

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• Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are

  Susan Sontag

  Reality, Drawing, Cameras

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.8, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• They [his 'Street Scene' paintings and drawings,he made in Berlin] originated in the years 1911-14, in one of the loneliest times of my life, during which an agonizing restlessness drove me out onto the streets day and night, which were filled with people and cars.

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

  Night, Years, Drawing

  "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Meisterwerke der Druckgraphik" by M. M. Moeller, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, (p. 184), 1990.

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• When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.

  Antony Sher

  Writing, Drawing, People

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• What attracted me was less art itself than the artist’s life and all that it meant for me: the idea of creativity and freedom of expression and action. I had been attracted to painting and drawing for a long time, but it was not an irresistible passion; what I wanted, at all costs, was to escape the monotony of life.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Art, Passion, Creativity

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• I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

  PJ Harvey

  Photography, Drawing, Sculpture

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase.

  Diane Lane

  Horse, Drawing, Age

  "Diane Lane Talks Secretariat". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 24, 2011.

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• I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

  Danny Huston

  Drawing, Passionate, Pads

  "Danny Huston Does The Boogie Woogie". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. April 21, 2010.

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• I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.

  Rafael Moneo

  Attitude, Drawing, Humanity

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• I would always be painting and drawing. If I was stuck at home, I was in the basement working on a painting.

  Terry Crews

  Home, Drawing, Painting

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• I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

  John Dyer

  Father, Artist, Drawing

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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, Drawing, Actors

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

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