Drawing Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

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.

I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.

I have been watching and drawing the surface of Mars. It is wonderfully full of detail. There is certainly no question about there being mountains and large greatly elevated plateaus.

I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have.

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 mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.

Doing Tim's film is always going to be the most pleasure. Let me just put it that way. So, without drawing favorites one way or the other, getting back with him and doing Mars Attacks! was certainly a special treat.

Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.

We don't sell technical drawings except when they are incorporated into a drawing or a collage.

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

It became clear to me that I had to push it toward a more representational way of drawing.