Drawing Quotes - Page 17

There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing

A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art) is never really finished; it is abandoned.

I think when I'm drawing, I'm seeing what's happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in my head.

I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.

The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.

The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.

I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.

There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved to the development of ideas. Lately it has become what architecture should be, which is more fluid organization. There has not been so much 'a change' but 'a development'.

To stick to the present and not let it pass without drawing some profit from it, that's what I think duty is. ...let us perservere as far as we can rather today than tomorrow.

Drawing is the root of everything.

Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?

If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you’re drawing it.

Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic.

Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.

A drawing should be a verdict on the model. Don't confuse a drawing with a map.

True intimacy is a human constant. People of all types find it equally hard to achieve, equally precious to hold. Age, education, social status, make little difference here; even genius does not presuppose the talent to reveal one's self completely and completely absorb one's self in another personality. Intimacy is to love what concentration is to work: a simultaneous drawing together to attention and release of energy.

I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework.

As an architect it is very important that you distinguish between different realities. There's the reality of the drawing and the reality of the building. So one could say, or at least it is the common belief that architecture has to be built; I always denied that, because ultimately it is based on an idea. I don't ever need a building to verify my idea. Of course, what with a building is more its vanity and actual physical experience. But I anticipate; I wouldn't even build it if I could not anticipate how it would be.

As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.

Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.

Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.

For being a bad student I was banished to the 'calaboose' - a bare cell with whitewashed walls and a bench to sit on. I liked it there, because I took along a sketch pad and drew incessantly I could have stayed there forever drawing without stopping