Quotes by Drawing It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I was once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous influence; that I've been told I was on the verge of insanity, that my painting was nothing but meaningless daubs. Lawren Harris, the man most responsible for drawing the Group of Seven together, was accused of something perilously close to treason - his paintings, said his severest critics, were discouraging immigration. A. Y. Jackson drawingmeninsanity I've been through a lot of ups and downs. I've been on both sides of it all, I guess. So there's not one specific event or thought that I'm dealing with or drawing from necessarily. Aaron Bruno drawingeventssides Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought. Adam Gopnik drawingriskplayer Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that. Adam Gopnik shadedrawingshapes We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time. Adam Sedgwick drawingtimescience Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists. Adrian McKinty drawingnovelistsaustralia I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form. Agnes Denes mathematicsdrawingfirsts The method of producing comics in Japan is very hectic, but it's also rewarding because it's possible to do both the story and art all by yourself. In this way, it's possibly to bring out one's individuality. If this idea appeals to you, I call on you to try drawing your own manga. Akira Toriyama drawingideasart You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested in the present. Al Hirschfeld drawingdonefeels Iwas a sculptor.Butthat'sreallydrawinga drawing you fall over in the dark, a three-dimensional drawing. Al Hirschfeld drawingdarkfall Almost every cartoonist, when he's sitting down to draw a funny face, if you watch him closely, his mouth is gonna curl to the expression that he's drawing. But when I would write a story - I know it's going to sound almost ridiculous and infantile - I would, in a way, start living it. Al Jaffee drawingexpressionwriting Drawing is like the first kiss. It carries within it the deepest emotion and the challenge of the first step. It is the first cry after birth Ala Bashir drawingkissingchallenges Cursed in earth and subdued by death, man found himself beset by time, and his instincts put to the test. Only then, he realized that with love he could survive, and that for a certain purpose he would toil. For those whom my love can not immune from death, are dedicated these paintings, in the hope they may express in drawing the reality of a resonant mind. Ala Bashir drawingmenreality 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. Alain de Botton drawingawarenesslooks The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within. Alain de Botton drawingselfdrinking To draw a tree, to pay such close attention to every aspect of a tree, is an act of reverence not only toward the tree, and toward the earth itself, but also our human connection to it. This is one of the magical things about drawing - it gives us almost visionary moments of connectedness. Alan Lee drawingtreegiving When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged. I love trying to render not just the object, but what it has been through. Alan Lee drawingtearstree I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right. Alan Lee rocksdrawingrivers Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. The activity of the intuition consists in making spontaneous judgements which are not the result of conscious trains of reasoning. The exercise of ingenuity in mathematics consists in aiding the intuition through suitable arrangements of propositions, and perhaps geometrical figures or drawings. Alan Turing drawingexercisetwo 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. Alberto Giacometti drawingdarknessmen1234567891011»
