Quotes by Drawing Who bides his time tastes the sweet Of honey in the saltiest tear; And though he fares with slowest feet Joy runs to meet him drawing near. James Whitcomb Riley drawingrunningsweet I remember that at one time I always made a drawing before going to bed!! - Of myself I mean - though I finally destroyed most of them. James Whistler drawingbedmean It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home. James Thurber drawingalcoholhome Drawing Is An Escape From All The Unecessary Things In Life That Get In The Way Of Being Free Jamie Hewlett being-freethings-in-lifedrawing I drew pictures rapidly and with few lines, because I had to write most of the pieces, too, and couldn't monkey long with the drawings. The divine urge was no higher than that. James Thurber drawingwritinglong My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point. James Thurber drawingarguingideas Also, I think having that comic gene kind of makes you look at things in a different way. If you take yourself so seriously, eventually you end up one of those people having a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on their lives. You see them drawing the curtains and they don't even realize that they've kind of drifted off somewhere. Jamie Foxx drawingpeoplethinking I remember kids used to give me a penny for drawing them a horse. I loved horses, but I couldn't have one, so I would draw a horse for myself. I would make it food and a blanket for it to wear and a place to live. Jan Brett horsedrawingkids This sacrifice of a pawn nowadays is only played for drawing purposes. Especially against the very strongest masters it has proved to be quite useful to this end. Jan Hein Donner sacrificedrawingpurpose Women are important in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. But while their faces are seen everywhere- in oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, - their voices are never heard. Jan Marsh oildrawingvoice The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. James Madison spheresvortexdrawing So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the 'global village' we would propagate prejudice and ignorance. There was absolutely no harm in being part of a small group - indeed, with our hunter-gatherer band mentality it gave comfort, provided us with an inner circle of friends who could be utterly trusted, who were absolutely reliable. It helped give us peace of mind. The danger came only from drawing that sharp line, digging that ditch, laying that minefield, between our own group and any other group that thought differently. Jane Goodall drawingcirclesignorance I recognize that it is through the engagement with my craft - by recognizing an idea and drawing it out, building physical models, collaborating with experts, constructing the sculptures at urban scale, and maintaining them through years of weather and interaction with the public - that a new art for cities has become real. Janet Echelman drawingrealart It was the building from the drawing in my brain. And if you don’t think that’s a weird sentence, maybe you should reread it. James Patterson drawingbrainthinking I was raised by my grandparents, and they always made sure that I had a pencil and some paper, whether we were in the car or at a restaurant. While they were enjoying a nice meal, I would be sitting there drawing funny pictures of the waitress. Jarrett J. Krosoczka grandparentdrawingnice I like drawing most everything I see, but sometimes the light will hit something in a certain way that I just cannot capture the thing the way I would like with a drawing, so I think taking a picture might be the way to document what I am seeing better. Jason Polan drawinglightthinking Sometimes I draw with my left hand and I am pretty terrible. The drawings end up just looking like shakier/inconsistent (worse) versions of my right hand drawings. Sometimes I like drawing with my eyes closed. Jason Polan drawingeyehands I made a life-size drawing of King Kong's head which was about eight feet-by- six feet. I tried to measure the head (scaled to other things in the movie I could estimate the size of) that was in the movie in the early '30s, and I liked that I was making something "life-size" that was kind of a fictional thing. Jason Polan eightdrawingkings Sometimes I will draw people and they will move away too quickly for me to finish what I wanted, and it is not enough for me to consider it a drawing of them. I hope I have gotten better at capturing things quicker in a drawing. Jason Polan drawingpeoplemoving One time I covered a wall with 8.5×11 pages of drawings, which made things feel a little bit different in the room. Jason Polan walldrawingdifferent«2223242526272829303132»
