Quotes by Drawing When I get to the drawing, I really enjoy taking a big chunk of time and working on the drawing and nothing else. That allows me to make sure that I'm really challenging the art, making each picture as interesting as I can. Bill Watterson drawing art interesting Too often cartoonists just look at other cartoonists and, after a lot of inbreeding, everyone has the same funny look. The challenge of drawing is that there is no one right way to visually describe something. It's a good thing to confront your limitations and preconceptions every so often. Bill Watterson inbreeding drawing challenges If you're a painter, it's simply taken for granted that you'll spend a lot of time in museums studying great paintings, but if you're a cartoonist, it used to be very hard to see an original cartoon drawing. Bill Watterson drawing taken museums I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters. Billy Childish drawing book art I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there. Billy Connolly desert drawing islands I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it's not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days. Billy Connolly drawing acting stuff By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind. B.K.S. Iyengar drawing silence inspiring Well, it's always been my nature to take chances My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances Bob Dylan left-hand drawing hands When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to? Bob Monkhouse inventor drawing boards I like doing clay work. It's different from drawing on a page because you have something to mold into different shapes. It's quite visual, it's a thing you can hold and feel, and that makes it different from drawing. Bonnie Wright clay mold drawing I wrote a lot. I was in programs for drawing when I was a kid. Boyd Holbrook program drawing kids When caricaturist, Al Hirschfeld, did a drawing of a celebrity, it often looked more like the person than the person did. That's our goal in animation. Brad Bird als drawing goal Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing. Brenda Ueland drawing writing thinking There is the "you" that people see and then there is the "rest of you". Take some time and craft a picture of the "rest of you." This could be a drawing, in words, even a song. Just remember that the chances are good it will be full of paradox and contradictions. Brennan Manning drawing song people But still when the mists of doubt prevail, Bret Harte drawing lying children I met Picasso when I was a kid. I turned one of his drawings down which would be worth £37 million now. My dad wouldn't talk to me for a fortnight. Brian Blessed drawing dad kids I threw [Picasso's] drawing on the floor and in doing so, threw away about £50m. Brian Blessed drawing I've been creating work by silk-screening images of arms and legs and heads and objects on paper - like drawings of vegetables, guns, hats, whatever - and then also printing sheets of patterns, colorful polka dots and line drawing patterns. Brian Chippendale creating drawing gun For me drawing is an attempt to understand what I feel about the world I live in. Brian Froud drawing feels world You know, most of my career I wrote about moments in time. All of us have felt one thing or another and it didn't last very long. Now I'm drawing from real experience. It's a huge difference. Brian McKnight drawing careers real «23456789101112»