Quotes by Drawing The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be. Chuck Jones drawing essence thinking All of you here have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone. Chuck Jones drawing hundred thousand Every great artist must begin by learning to draw with the single line, and my advice to young animators is to learn how to live with that razor-sharp instrument or art. An artist who comes to me with eight or ten good drawings of the human figure in simple lines has a good chance of being hired. But I will tell the artist who comes with a bunch of drawings of Bugs Bunny to go back and learn how to draw the human body. An artist who knows that can learn how to draw ANYTHING, including Bugs Bunny. Chuck Jones drawing simple art When a young artist asked me for advice on drawing the human foot, I told him, ‘The first thing you must learn is how to take your shoe off, and then how to take your sock off, then prop your leg up carefully on your other knee, take a piece of paper, and draw your foot.’ Chuck Jones shoes drawing artist You've got a million bad drawings in you; you better get started. Chuck Jones millions drawing Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you. Chuck Jones drawing keys mind If he even survives." She shivered, and Amon put his arm around her, drawing her into his steady warmth. "It's that bad?" Raisa nodded. "He looked...he looked awful, Amon. Willo doesn't know if he'll...She's worried about him. My mother died, and I never got to tell her that I loved her, that I finally understood - just a little anyway. If Han dies too, I don't know what I'll do. Cinda Williams Chima arms drawing mother I knew I wasn't that good a writer, and all I could remember was that I could draw. I'm better at drawing than I am at writing. Claes Oldenburg drawing writing remember I got a little studio in Chicago and practiced. I realized I had to earn some money. So I went to work for an advertising agency where my job was mostly drawing insects for a company that sold an insecticide spray. Claes Oldenburg agency drawing jobs Ritual is one of the ways in which humans put their lives in perspective, whether it be Purim, Advent, or drawing down the moon. Ritual calls together the shades and specters in people's lives, sorts them out, puts them to rest. Clarissa Pinkola Estes drawing moon people I never draw except with brush and paint. Claude Monet brushes drawing paint I'm English and I'm used to coming from a world of period dramas, where there's a very polite restraint to everything. Everybody's sort of sitting in drawing rooms. Clive Owen drawing drama rooms The planets are never the same twice, they're always different, so they could compare the markings I had drawn with their current photographs and they knew that I was drawing what I was really seeing and it wasn't copied from somewhere. Clyde Tombaugh drawing different photograph Drawing is something I do on the side, I like to see it be of use at times. Coeur de pirate drawing use sides Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell asleep during Obama's speech. She woke up with the other justices drawing a gavel on her face. Conan O'Brien ruth drawing justice The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors. The names of birds. Things to eat. Finally the name of things one believed to be true. More fragile than he would have thought. How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality. Drawing down like something trying to preserve heat. In time to wink out forever. Cormac McCarthy drawing color reality I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists. Craig McCracken drawing artist The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch. Criss Jami drawing artist people If the horse you're drawing looks more like a dog, make it a dog. Cynthia Lewis horse drawing dog Draw nigh to God, so that you may dread the grave as little as your bed. Draw nigh to God, that you may live a happy and useful life. Drawing nigh to God is the most concentrated energy of the soul. Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings. D. A. Carson drawing prayer blessing «678910111213141516»