- 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
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad loved computer games, and I would sit beside him for hours with graph paper, drawing out plans to try and forecast the moves he should make while he worked the computer controller.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writing and drawing a character.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going to so many book events keeps me connected with my readership while constantly reminding me that all the long hours at the drawing desk are worthwhile.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
About five years old, I was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon and, you know, the black curly hair. That's how I was portraying myself.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm big into not drawing conclusions for people. I think that's what makes for the most exciting, compelling films. I get bored when the politics of the filmmaker are the subject of the film that I see.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved drawing, but I just couldn't do it to the level that some of my friends could. That pulled me up unconsciously because I wanted to be like them, and I wanted to draw.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best sort of activity is one that combines mental effort with sensuous delight. That's why I love drawing.
- Simple
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- Nov 07, 2020