Quotes by Drawing My work often begins as little internal dares, wondering if I can pull something off. So I spent a few years drawing these stories together, trying to build a Pangea of what began as separate continents. Anthony Marra drawing together years There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed. I do not suppose that these pianos are, in fact, as a rule, louder and harsher, more violent and less musical, than other instruments of the kind. They seem to be so, but that, I take it, arises from the exceptional mental depression of those who have to listen to them. Anthony Trollope piano drawing music My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. Antoine de Saint-Exupery hats drawing elephants I showed the grown ups my maasterpiece, andI asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered why be scared of a hat? My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. Antoine de Saint-Exupery hats drawing elephants The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be. . . . Antoine Lavoisier estimating drawing art The tattoo can only exist as part of the skin, as a drawing always is an incision in the material and therefore cannot be parted from it. Antoni Tapies drawing tattoo skins When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well. Antony Sher drawing writing people When I was a child of four I wasn't really drawing like a child, I wasn't sketching as a child. I would sketch and I was using perspective, the good relationship of the subject. Arman good-relationship drawing children Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint. Arshile Gorky sketching drawing art I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found... that, having done a drawing of souls in Purgatory for the Bishop of St. Gata, he, in order to spend less, commissioned another painter to do the painting using my work. If I were a man, I can't imagine it would have turned out this way. Artemisia Gentileschi drawing men order "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences." Arthur Conan Doyle drawing failure friendship We should lay up in our minds a store of goodly thoughts which will be a living treasure of knowledge always with us, and from which, at various times, and amidst all the shiftings of circumstances, we might be sure of drawing some comfort, guidance and sympathy. Arthur Helps drawing life knowledge At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily, first ten, then twelve, and ultimately fourteen hours, performing the same mechanical labour, is to purchase dearly the satisfaction of drawing breath. But this is the fate of millions, and that of millions more is analogous to it. Arthur Schopenhauer fate drawing years I've always been altering clothing my entire life. But I would have to say my first real amateur endeavor would have to be drawing, designing and then literally cutting and sewing every piece of costume for my first band I formed in Hollywood. Ashley Purdy drawing cutting real Things shape themselves before my eyes just as a I draw them. Aubrey Beardsley drawing shapes eye I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse myself, and if it has amused the public as well, so much the better for me. Aubrey Beardsley drawing fun people The space that I can call mine.. is so small that my ideas have become small. I am like a caterpillar in a cocoon of paper; all around me are sketches for sculptures, small drawings that seem like moths fluttering against the windows, beating their wings to escape from this tiny space.. Every day the ideas come more reluctantly, as though they know I will starve them and stunt their growth. Audrey Niffenegger drawing wings ideas The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others. Auguste Rodin drawing color men What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to be sure that nothing evaded my grasp of it... My objective is to test to what extent my hands already feel what my eyes see. Auguste Rodin drawing eye hands My drawings are the result of my sculpture. Auguste Rodin sculpture drawing results «1234567891011»
