- Gesture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drawing Quotes
On sketching through hard days and building a world from scratch.
One quote describes drawing as a therapeutic way to work through things when writing feels impossible, and another mentions playing a drawing game with friends just to unwind. For more on the creative process, see our Art quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started drawing a mouse because it was my father's nickname for my mother. And mice are very expressive.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
You booked him, and you didn't worry about crowds. For drawing power in the South, it was Roy Acuff, then God.
- Library
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- Nov 07, 2020
My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, writing, drawing, and political activism are three separate pursuits; each has its own intensity. I happen to be especially attuned to and engaged with the society in which I live. Both my writing and my drawing are invariably mixed up with politics, whether I want them to be or not.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every writer is going to end up drawing from their own experiences in one way or another.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people retire, their income drops much more sharply than their consumption. As a result, they stop saving and start drawing down the assets they've acquired during their high-saving years. That could start to put upward pressure on interest rates and downward pressure on stock prices.
- Army
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was always that detail that drove me. Ever since I was a little kid, I used to get into the nitty gritty... when I was drawing army tanks or monsters, I'd do every nut and rivet, and I'd do every scale on the dragon's back. It was just the way I was built.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, it's a big version of an episode, which I think is necessary at this point because we're drawing in people who not only people who have seen the show before and are devoted to it, but people who have never seen it before.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
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- Nov 07, 2020