Drawing Quotes - Page 5

If I don't have an erection when I'm doing a drawing, I know it's no good.

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

I do not know if you bridle your pen, but when my pencil moves, it is necesary to let it go, or - crash!... nothing more.

Pornographic or erotic stories and pictures are worse than filthy or polluted food. The body has defenses to rid itself of unwholesome food. With a few fatal exceptions, bad food will only make you sick but do no permanent harm. In contrast, a person who feasts upon filthy stories or pornographic or erotic pictures and literature records them in this marvelous retrieval system we call a brain. The brain won't vomit back filth. Once recorded, it will always remain subject to recall, flashing its perverted images across your mind and drawing you away from the wholesome things in life.

I really wish Mike and Joe would stop drawing on me while I'm sleeping.

We preach sermons, write books on apologetics, conduct city-wide evangelistic campaigns. For those alienated from the church, that approach no longer has the same drawing power. And for the truly needy, words alone don't satisfy; "A hungry person has no ears," as one relief worker told me. A skeptical world judges the truth of what we say by the proof of how we live.

For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything.

I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

All intervening steps, scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed work models, studies thoughts, conversations, are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist are sometimes more interesting than the final product

Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well; and then to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned.

The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of, and feeling toward, women and Negroes, we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture.

But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.

An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake.

In the late 70's I started to make drawings of the ordinary objects I had been using in my work. Initially I wanted them to be ready-made drawings of the kind of common objects I had always used in my work. I was surprised to discover I couldn't find the simple, neutral drawings I had assumed existed, so I started to make them myself.

I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.

Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.

he line has almost become a work of art in itself; one can not play with it when the representation of objects perceived was all-important.

More important than having a romance with the object that I'm drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I am making.

If you are drawing a blank, or are having a hard time drawing a certain thing, then it is because you have not studied it enough.

While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate.

The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up.