Quotes by Drawing Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk. Paul Klee drawinglinesart Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas. Paul Mellon oildrawingemotional I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit. Paul Klee dubiousdrawingcolor I still come closest to success with drawing. Paul Klee closestdrawingstills Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near. Paul Robeson drawingfreedomnew-day Going back to the elementary school days, I was always drawing. I entered a Victory poster competition and won the top award that recognized my artistic instincts. Paul Smith drawingawardsschool Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence. Paul Strand oildrawingorder When I say: "I'm looking at you, I can see you", that means: "I can see you because I can't see what is behind you: I see you through the frame I am drawing. I can't see inside you". If I could see you from beneath or from behind, I would be God. I can see you because my back and my sides are blind. One can't even imagine what it would be like to see inside people. Paul Virilio drawingmeanpeople I must learn to express the gentle vibration of things: the intrinsically rough texture. I must find this expression in drawings; in the way in which I draw my nudes here in Paris, more original and at the same time sensitively observed. Paula Modersohn-Becker parisdrawingexpression Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them. Paula Rego vitalitypaintingdrawing Well, what we do is we have a script, of course. But for us, writing is also like storyboarding. It's drawing. And so we will cut all of those drawings together with music, sound effects and dialogue. And we screen this kind of stick-figure version of the film. Pete Docter drawingcuttingwriting Well, back to the old drawing board. Peter Arno drawingboardscheer Well, back to the drawing board. Peter Arno wellsdrawingboards At one point people in al Qaeda were actually drawing monthly paychecks when they were based in Sudan. Peter Bergen alsdrawingpeople I'm not a visionary, but I've spent half my life drawing things Imagined, Remembered, and Observed, comparing the differences between them, and my study confirms that "the difference between night and day / is not as great as people say." Peter Blegvad drawingdifferencesnight You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice? Peter De Vries issuesdrawingreal I went to the archives to see what Dumbo work there was, not for current film, but just for my love of animation. And I couldn't believe all the artwork the guys had done to find this universal empathy to Dumbo. There was one drawing where they used his ears as a sign: "Eat at Joes!" These guys were continually searching and digging to see what that is. Peter Sohn empathydrawingbelieve I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before. Peter Wright drawingclasslife I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake. Peter Wright drawingpeoplethinking My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in Petrarch drawingheartdeath«4243444546474849505152»
