Drawing Quotes - Page 2

As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.

When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.

We are sending out thoughts of greater or less intensity all the time, and we are reaping the results of such thoughts. Not only do our thought-waves influence ourselves and others, but they have a drawing power - they attract to us the thoughts of others, things, circumstances, people, 'luck', in accord with the character of the thought uppermost in our minds.

We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential.

My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.

The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.

You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw.

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.

Well, back to the old drawing board.

Until we can insert a USB into our ear and download our thoughts, drawing remains the best way of getting visual information on to the page. I draw as a collagist, juxtaposing images and styles of mark-making from many sources. The world I draw is the interior landscape of my own personal obsessions and of cultures I have absorbed and adapted, from Latvian folk art to Japanese screens. I lasso thoughts with a pen. I draw a stave church or someone from Hello! magazine not because I want to replicate how they look, but because of the meaning they bring to the work.

The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls, so it is to this we must look to becoming more spiritual, drawing nearer to God, no matter what our human minds and bodies go through.

Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a form, a splotch of color. Any accident is good enough. I let the matiere decide. Then I prepare a ground by, for example, wiping my brushes on the canvas. Letting fall some drops of turpentine on it would do just as well. If I want to make a drawing I crumple the sheet of paper or I wet it; the flowing water traces a line and this line may suggest what is to come next.

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

I'm never drawing the object itself; I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it.

The soul seeks God by faith, not by the reasonings of the mind and labored efforts, but by the drawings of love; to which inclinations God responds, and instructs the soul, which co-operates actively. God then puts the soul in a passive state where He accomplishes all, causing great progress, first by way of enjoyment, then by privation, and finally by pure love.

In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best.

The practice of yoga induces a primary sense of measure and proportion. Reduced to our own body, our first instrument, we learn to play it, drawing from it maximum resonance and harmony.