Quotes by Drawing I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line. Ellsworth Kelly drawinglineswant All my work begins with drawings. I don’t labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line. I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to ten minutes. Ellsworth Kelly drawing Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading. Ellsworth Kelly copyingdrawingtrying The fatal hour of this ancient game is approaching. In its modern form this game will soon die a drawing death - the inevitable victory of certainty and mechanization will leave its stamp on the fate of chess. Emanuel Lasker fatedrawinggames In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built. Emilio Ambasz impactdrawingreality I'm drawing from two generations back how to think about music, how to think about why you travel to make music, what the possible pitfalls of that are for the way your life is structured. The good and bad of all of it get into the mix of what's created, what you're creating. Elvis Costello drawingtwothinking If the air is jam-full of sounds which we tune in with, why should it not also be full of feels and smells and things seen through the spirit, drawing particles from us to them and them to us like magnets? Emily Carr smelldrawingair It is one of history's most mocking ironies that the German customs union, which set out to dominate Europe and conquer Britain in the form of Bismarckian or Hitlerian military force, has at last vanquished the victor by drawing Britain into a Zollverein which comprises Western Europe and aspires to comprise the Mediterranean as well. If the ghosts of the Hohenzollerns come back to haunt this planet, they must find a lot to laugh at. Enoch Powell drawingmilitaryeurope They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn't seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible. Eric Clapton necksdrawingguy I've had my own personal stalker. I would get nude drawings of my body with a knife and a message saying 'I'm watching you' and 'I'm going to get you.' Erin Gray knivesdrawingbody To think out a problem is not unlike drawing a caricature. You have to exaggerate the salient point and leave out that which is not typical. "To illustrate a principle ," says Bagehot , "you must exaggerate much and you must omit much." As to the quantity of absolute truth in a thought : it seems to me the more comprehensive and unobjectionable a thought becomes, the more clumsy and unexciting it gets. I like half-truths of a certain kind they are interesting and they stimulate. Eric Hoffer drawinginterestingthinking All the old bogeys of 'dignified subject-matter,' of 'balanced compositions,' of 'correct drawing' were laid to rest. The artist was responsible to no one but his own sensibilities for what he painted and how he painted it. Ernst Gombrich drawingartistresponsibility They [his 'Street Scene' paintings and drawings,he made in Berlin] originated in the years 1911-14, in one of the loneliest times of my life, during which an agonizing restlessness drove me out onto the streets day and night, which were filled with people and cars. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner drawingnightyears The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting (remark on printmaking). Ernst Ludwig Kirchner drawingenergyartist Let us ban together to invent all the miracles and resurrection appearances which we never saw and le us carry the sham even to death! Why not die for nothing? Why dislike torture and whipping inflicted for no good reason? Let us go out to all nations and overthrow their institutions and denounce their gods! And even if we don't convince anybody, at least we'll have the satisfaction of drawing down on ourselves the punishment for out own deceit. Eusebius punishmentdrawingmiracle The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for that, you must acquire facility, furnish one's memory to the point of infinitude, and make numerous drawings after the old masters. Eugene Delacroix drawingmemoriesideas Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught. Eugene Delacroix drawingcolorlaw My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front. Evan Sayet drawingtexastwo The profoundest order is revealed in what is most casual. Fairfield Porter drawingorderart Never ask a favor until you are drawing your last breath; and never forget one. Fanny Fern drawingfavorslasts«1314151617181920212223»
