Quotes by Drawing You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design. Matt Smith drawingdesigncolor The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work. Matt Groening drawinghard-workwish I would love to collaborate on a graphic novel with an artist - I'm terrible at drawing but I really love that genre. Matthea Harvey graphic-novelsdrawingartist People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher. Matt Groening drawingteacherpeople There's always room out there for the hand-drawn image. I personally like the imperfection of hand drawing as opposed to the slick look of computer animation. But you can do good stuff either way. The Pixar movies are amazing in what they do, but there's plenty of independent animators who are doing really amazing things as well. Matt Groening drawingindependenthands I was horrified of the dark. I realized that the only way I could get over that fear was by scaring other people, so I became obsessed with ghost stories, drawing monsters, watching monster movies, sneaking into horror movies, and it's just been the love of my life forever. Matthew Gray Gubler ghost-storiesdrawingdark The art of drawing is the art of omission. Max Liebermann omissiondrawingart I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be. Maurice Sendak drawingbrothermean [Drawing] and making things was all we ever did. My brother and I built the entire New York World's Fair of 1939 in miniature out of wax. The floor of our room was covered with little waxen buildings. Nobody else could come in. Maurice Sendak drawingbrothernew-york When a man's intellect is constantly with God, his desire grows beyond all measure into an intense longing for God and his incensiveness is completely transformed into divine love. For by continual participation in the divine radiance his intellect becomes totally filled with light; and when it has reintegrated its passible aspect, it redirects this aspect towards God, filling it with an incomprehensible and intense longing for Him and with unceasing love, thus drawing it entirely away from worldly things to the divine. Maximus the Confessor drawingchristianmen Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified. Maxwell Perkins drawingwritingart The process that we go through in recording with Tool is very organic, but at the same time it is very thought out. There is a very left-brain process of dissecting what we're doing and drawing from source material; it's very research oriented and esoteric. Maynard James Keenan drawingtoolsbrain Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing. Meg Cabot drawingwantart God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him. Meister Eckhart knowing-who-you-aredrawingcutting Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris. Mason Cooley parisdrawingnew-york Low comedies are written for the drawing-room, the kitchen and the stable, and if you cut out the kitchen and the stable the drawing-room can't support the play by itself. Mark Twain drawingcuttingplay A drawing of the nude is a most revealing expression because it is at once the most private and the most personal. Often such drawings are made with no thought of public exhibition. They possess the intimacy of diaries. Mervyn Levy drawingexpressiondiaries The process of drawing is... the process of putting the visual intelligence into action, the very mechanics of visual thought. Unlike painting and sculpture... the artist makes clear to himself and not to the spectator what he is doing. It is a soliloquy before it becomes communication. Michael Ayrton drawingcommunicationartist In the late 70's I started to make drawings of the ordinary objects I had been using in my work. Initially I wanted them to be ready-made drawings of the kind of common objects I had always used in my work. I was surprised to discover I couldn't find the simple, neutral drawings I had assumed existed, so I started to make them myself. Michael Craig-Martin drawingsimpleordinary Every day is like a kid's drawing, offered to you with a strange mix of ceremoniousness and offhand disregard, yours for the keeping. Some of the days are rich and complicated, others inscrutable, others little more than a stray gray mark on a ragged page. Some you manage to hang on to, though your reasons for doing so are often hard to fathom. But most of them you just ball up and throw away. Michael Chabon ballsdrawingkids«3637383940414243444546»
