- Me
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My earliest drawing is a supposed Carracci. It wasn't very expensive, I guess, because they don't know if it's a real Carracci. But it has all these seals on it of people who've owned it, and one of the great portrait painters of England, Reynolds, had owned it, so that's the earliest.
- Measure
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Boston, I developed my eye from the drawing. In Paris, I was fascinated by what my eye saw in the way that Paris is built, its 'measure.'
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the sense of solidarity has been developed to such a point that each one feels the cause of all others as his own, we shall be drawing near to international and to social peace.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.
- Mountains
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know where I got the idea for 'The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book'; I just told my brain to think of a book, and it did.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
If D-Day - the greatest amphibious operation ever undertaken - failed, there would be no going back to the drawing board for the Allies. Regrouping and attempting another massive invasion of German-occupied France even a few months later in 1944 wasn't an option.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are always drawing from your personal life and using your imagination to fill in the blanks.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk about the book, you could do a drawing of the book, you could write a play inspired by the book, and that's what I did. I got to be so famous. I had to go around to every school and perform it. It was just so natural and fun.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020