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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
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
The drawing and the crafting of the story are fun, but it's the overall meaning that matters to me. It might escape some people who just want to read a comic, and that's fine. The overall meaning is what matters.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been drawing and creating visual works my entire life, as long as I can remember.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drawing and visual pursuits were first. Music came and found me in a way. Really, what it's about is creative problem solving, and music is a lot more an expression of that than painting is for me.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the other kids in ninth grade were drawing hot rods and cocker spaniels and getting blue ribbons in art class. I was getting rejection slips from the 'Saturday Evening Post.'
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into the drawing board.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
All comic books take place in built environments, and I was very good at drawing people and animals, and stuff like that, but I hadn't spent much energy drawing buildings. So I thought, maybe I could, and then I became an architect.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
My drawing skills probably froze around when I was 18... Now I'm more interested in the story, how the drawings, the layout can help express the stories and communicate them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm much better known in France and Germany and Spain than I am in the U.S. When I go to Russia, I get mobbed; I have groups of fans waiting for me out in the hotel lobby, waiting for me to come down off the elevator. In China, I almost got beat up because people were trying to get me to do a drawing for them.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L' out of me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was once in a very, very bad car accident. So my drawing arm is full of pins and platinum stuff. Occasionally it hurts. But I found that after the arm was put back together I could draw better than before. I have no idea why.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very passionate about art, music, drawing, acting, so I'd like to have the chance to get the larger choice regarding acting.
- Driving Force
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- Nov 07, 2020