Drawing Quotes - Page 22

I have a personal definition of cartooning, which is, simply, "imaginative drawing." Anything you're drawing that is not in front of you but is a mental construct that you want to express in a drawing is, to me, a cartoon.

When I was between seven and 13, I hated music. I wasn't interested in music at all. I'd tried to listen to it just because all my friends were getting into pop music and everything, and I remember I just wasn't interested at all. I liked drawing and science.

Draw lines - draw a lot of lines

It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

I admired anybody who could make a buck with his drawing.

I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.

Drawing is the true test of art.

I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.

I don't have the story finished and ready when we start work on a film. I usually don't have the time. So the story develops when I start drawing storyboards. I never know where the story will go but I just keeping working on the film as it develops. It's a dangerous way to make an animation film and I would like it to be different, but unfortunately, that's the way I work and everyone else is kind of forced to subject themselves to it.

Every individual, like a statue, develops in his life the laws of harmony, integrity, and freedom; or those of deformity, immorality, and bondage. Whether we wish to or not, we are all drawing our own pictures in the lives we are living.

Man was not then considered a good goldsmith unless he could draw well.

It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.

Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.

To see the human condition in the old woman, in the child, in the model on the stand, in that particular human being, and to let the hand trace it, this act of adoration is called, 'drawing from life.

Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.

Now we come to the passage. You can just see a little peep of the passage in Looking-glass House, if you leave the door of our drawing room wide open: and it's very like our passage as far as you can see, only you know it may be quite different on beyond.

My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front.

I have been watching and drawing the surface of Mars. It is wonderfully full of detail. There is certainly no question about there being mountains and large greatly elevated plateaus.

Drawing is your understanding of form.

If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!