Drawing Quotes

I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.

I have been drawing all my life.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

What you do is, you have your drawing board and a pencil in hand at the telescope. You look in and you make some markings on the paper and you look in again.

I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs, and how the couches would be situated.

In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.

My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which now that I look back on some things, she would love it, she would say that's amazing, or if I'd make the ugliest drawing, she would hang it up. She was amazing.

For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.

It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.

That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.

I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.

At one point people in al Qaeda were actually drawing monthly paychecks when they were based in Sudan.

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

Drawing must seek interest, not admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

I quit comics because I got completely sick of it. I was drawing comics all the time and didn't have the time or energy to do anything else. That got to me in the end.

I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

I Never Liked You. I think that's my best book. I think it works the best as a story, and I like the drawing. It works on both levels, for me at least.

The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far more interesting than the drawing that I had done on it.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

My work is so unorthodox that from one panel to the next, the drawings are completely different... totally opposed to the way of working in something like animation, where every drawing has to look like the one before.

If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.

Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.

The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.

Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.