Quotes by Drawing Things are drawing towards the end now, unless I am mistaken. There is an unpleasant time just in front of you; but keep your heart up! J. R. R. Tolkien drawingendsheart After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures. Jack Prelutsky drawingtwoideas Drawing is an idea more than fact. Jack Shadbolt drawingfactsideas Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that the peculiar quality of this secondary world (if not all the details) are derived from Reality, or are flowing into it. J. R. R. Tolkien drawingrealwish I love painting still lifes because there's a feeling of musical, flowing experience. The drawing doesn't matter as much - what you're really after is a feeling of clarity and beauty. Jacob Collins drawingmusicalfeelings I don't work from drawings and colour sketches into a final painting. Painting, I think, today - the more immediate, the more direct - the greater the possibilities of making a direct - of making a statement. Jackson Pollock finalsdrawingthinking There are many ways to draw beautifully. It's important to let the drawing be an investigation and sometimes, in order to investigate, you need to go off the path. Jacob Collins drawingimportantorder With experience it seems to be possible to control the flow of paint, to a great extent, and I don't use - I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident... it's quite different from working, say, from a still life where you set up objects and work directly from them. I do have a general notion of what I'm about and what the results will be. I approach painting in the same sense as one approaches drawing, that is, it's direct. Jackson Pollock drawingdifferentuse I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar , were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects. Jacob Epstein drawingteacherschool I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting. Jackson Pollock drawingcolorartist I've been drawing since I could hold a pencil. I've got many ideas that are still to be drawn out, but the couple collaborations in development are with other actor/writers for graphic novel/comic that could potentially become a film project. Jade Hassoune drawingcoupleideas An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but everything that happens to me, that I can affect, or that affects me. Jacques Derrida portraitsdrawingself He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day of doom, the day of final effort or disaster, the last gasp. J. R. R. Tolkien next-dayeffortdrawing You have to take in the whole picture, and ask, "What is it you want? What kind of world do you want?" So, I have drawings of different cities. Those cities have an end goal; they're not just cities. The end goal of those cities is to make things relevant to people that they respond to. There's no other way. Jacque Fresco drawingcitiesgoal The Secret of Drawing consists of just two things: 1) Making lines on paper; and 2) Choosing where they go. James A. Owen drawingsecrettwo In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." This was a short and a figurative statement of his distinction between drawing characters of nature and characters only of manners, but I cannot help being of opinion, that the neat watches of Fielding are as well constructed as the large clocks of Richardson, and that his dial plates are brighter. James Boswell drawingcharactermen But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near. J. R. R. Tolkien eastdrawingwind ...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of their own inner consciousness and without drawing to any appreciable extent on their experience of the outer world. James Jeans drawingnaturescience One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then. James Purefoy drawinglineshistorical A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption. James Thurber captiondrawinglevels«2122232425262728293031»
