Quotes by Drawing I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people. Sally Phillips drawingwritingschool If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius. Salvador Dali drawingcolorart Drawing is the honesty of the art. Salvador Dali drawinghonestyart Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.' Salman Rushdie drawingwritingpeople The short winter’s day was drawing to a close. It seems to me sometimes that these are the only days I have ever known, and especially that most charming moment of all, just before night Samuel Beckett drawingwinternight It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious life a great part passes without study. An author partakes of the common condition of humanity; he is born and married like another man; he has hopes and fears, expectations and disappointments, griefs and joys, and friends and enemies, like a courtier or a statesman; nor can I conceive why his affairs shuld not excite curiosity as much as the whisper of a drawing-room, or the factions of a camp. Samuel Johnson drawinggriefdisappointment One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's something about that that keeps it fresh to the viewer. Scott Adams styledrawingreason-why It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career. Scott McCloud drawingapproachcareers I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw. Scott Adams fancydrawinghands I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is a very rich and reactive surface. I begin by drawing on the canvas with a kind of loose line, very simply and freely. I paint very thinly, which allows me to change the drawing if I want to. Sean Scully drawinglineswant If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you’re drawing it. Sergio Aragones drawingwaythinking When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject. Sergio Aragones daydreamingdrawingstories My work is so unorthodox that from one panel to the next, the drawings are completely different... totally opposed to the way of working in something like animation, where every drawing has to look like the one before. Sergio Aragones unorthodoxdrawingdifferent Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design. Sergio Aragones drawingdesigncharacter When I'm drawing a bottle or a town or a market, I transport myself there. So I start drawing everything that I'm looking at while I'm there. Here's a guy selling the meat, and he will have a hook, and you start adding things, and it's a lot of fun. Sergio Aragones drawingguyfun I still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis. Seth MacFarlane basesdrawingstills For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive. Shahzia Sikander drawingimaginationpractice I think context, location matters a lot. Because location obviously in my situation, it's the space in which the work is going to be exhibited. And since some of the work I do is created onsite, it requires a different type of space, versus the smaller drawings or more subject-oriented work. So that the context becomes important. Shahzia Sikander drawingspacethinking True compassion comes from free will by drawing empathy from within. Shane Barbi empathydrawingcompassion Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point. Seth Godin best-workdrawingboards«4950515253545556575859»
