Quotes by Drawing To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought. Henri Matisse precisiondrawingideas Drawing is of the Spirit and color of the Senses. Henri Matisse drawingcolorspirit Composition, the aim of which is expression, alters itself according to the surface to be covered. If I take a sheet of paper of given dimensions, I will jot down a drawing which will have a necessary relation to its format. Henri Matisse dimensionsdrawingexpression Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation. Henri Matisse drawingcolormean A colourist makes his presence known even in a simple charcoal drawing. Henri Matisse charcoaldrawingsimple I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely. Henry Moore drawsdrawing I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to realize as sculpture... And I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment. Henry Moore sculpturedrawingideas I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it. Henri Matisse copyingdrawingtree Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing. Henry Moore drawingstruggleart The construction of the human figure, its tremendous variety of balance, of size, of rhythm, all those things make the human form much more difficult to get right in a drawing than anything else. Henry Moore drawingbalancehumanity I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment. Henry Moore enjoymentdrawingsometimes I sometimes begin a drawing with no preconceived problem to solve, with only the desire to use pencil on paper... but as my eye takes in what is so produced, a point arrives where some idea crystallizes, and then a control and ordering begins to take place. Henry Moore drawingeyeideas And as we live our lives we discover - drawing toward us the thin threads attached to each - what has been lost. I closed my eyes and tried to bring to mind as many beautiful lost things as I could. Drawing them closer, holding on to them. Haruki Murakami drawingeyebeautiful A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted. Herbert Simon drawingdecisionrivers As you are aware, no perceptions obtained by the senses are merely sensations impressed on our nervous systems. A peculiar intellectual activity is required to pass from a nervous sensation to the conception of an external object, which the sensation has aroused. The sensations of our nerves of sense are mere symbols indicating certain external objects, and it is usually only after considerable practice that we acquire the power of drawing correct conclusions from our sensations respecting the corresponding objects. Hermann von Helmholtz drawingperceptionpractice Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence. Herodotus drawingadversitymen It is impossible to discuss realism in logic without drawing in the empirical sciences... A truly realistic mathematics should be conceived, in line with physics, as a branch of the theoretical construction of the one real world and should adopt the same sober and cautious attitude toward hypothetic extensions of its foundation as is exhibited by physics. Hermann Weyl drawingrealattitude It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast between the world's duration and the feeble span of individual experience. There is something in Stonehenge almost reassuring; and if you are disposed to feel that life is rather a superficial matter, and that we soon get to the bottom of things, the immemorial gray pillars may serve to remind you of the enormous background of time. Henry James drawingshadowsummer Man, fountains pen are a pain to use, drawing backgrounds is a also a pain... Drawing manga really is a pain. In short living is a pain... I want to become a cheesburger Hideaki Sorachi drawingpainmen Be of the disciples of Aaron, loving peace and pursuing peace, loving your fellow creatures and drawing them near to the Law. Hillel the Elder loving-youdrawinglaw«1920212223242526272829»
