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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
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs, and how the couches would be situated.
- Constructing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
From an early age, I had always loved drawing. Laying on the floor, in front of the fire, drawing from my imagination, marching soldiers, dive bombers, spaceships and monsters. Now, suddenly, I was drawing from real life!
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drawing was the only thing I was any good at in school, but I never dreamt I would, or even could, spend my life doing it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, travelling and drawing the world, experiencing as much as possible first hand, has been very important. Making notes, drawing and writing on the move, became second nature.
- Blood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a little girl my parents always told me do everything you want in an artistic way. If you want to draw, make a drawing. Just do it. And if you want to play piano, play piano. It was a very free childhood where everything was possible.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
We still insist, by and large, in thinking that we can understand China by simply drawing on Western experience, looking at it through Western eyes, using Western concepts. If you want to know why we unerringly seem to get China wrong... this is the reason.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm not with my family or playing football then I'm usually in my office writing and drawing.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawing. And then eventually it ends up at auction. And then critics say, 'Oh, that's a bad drawing!' Well, I didn't say it was so wonderful.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020