- 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
I'm interested in illustration in all its forms. Not only in books for children but in posters, prints and performance as a way of drawing people into books and stories.
- Start
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't feel when I'm writing that I'm drawing from any other writer, but of course I must be. The writers I've admired have been not so very different from myself: Evelyn Waugh, for example, that kind of crystalline prose. And I've always admired W. Somerset Maugham more than any other writer.
- Paper
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I was always drawing things. I'd get butcher paper or grocery bags and draw on them.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought I would draw or paint or be an architect. I was always drawing portraits. My mom put me in art classes in the summer.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mostly I wanted to be a writer, though for a couple of years there I wanted to be an animator, because I loved drawing and capturing beautiful movements.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to art school, and I studied drawing and video art, and I've always approached music so visually as a result that I found it really difficult in the past to kind of hand off music to another director, 'cause it just ends up being this kind of mid-zone where it's nobody's vision, really.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.
- Pen
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will.
- Thinking
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- Nov 07, 2020