Drawing Quotes

But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.

I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it's not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

The planets are never the same twice, they're always different, so they could compare the markings I had drawn with their current photographs and they knew that I was drawing what I was really seeing and it wasn't copied from somewhere.

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.

When we distributed the paper and crayons, they were fighting over the blue crayon. Everyone wanted to start with the blue, and that was the water. One drawing shows the trees under water. I was really moved.

But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published.

I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing - without the traditional interruption of academic training.

When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists in the underground never did anything if they weren't stoned, That was the prerequisite for sitting down and drawing.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you'll probably get the humor in the audio part.

Almost every scene, I re-think as I'm about to start drawing it, and at least half of the time I'm changing dialogue or whatever, or adding scenes or different things.

One thing I do personally started 20 years ago. I started meditating, and I know twice a day I can kind of let everything drop. It's just about being quiet, like drawing back the day, and it allows me to have energy.

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.

When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.

What Tim does is, he calls me and sends me the script. And then he sends me a drawing, an illustration of his image of me as the character. It's so great.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework.

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.