Kachan Drawing Quotes

To spend time observing, without drawing, thinking, without drawing, or feeling, without drawing, is the misfortune of nonartists. ~ Nick Meglin

If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one. ~ Robert Henri

Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing. ~ Robert Henri

Iwas a sculptor.Butthat'sreallydrawinga drawing you fall over in the dark, a three-dimensional drawing. ~ Al Hirschfeld

A drawing should be a verdict on the model. Don't confuse a drawing with a map. ~ Robert Henri

I shun drawing which is too easily formulated. It does not seem fertilized enough to produce consequences, and a drawing should be a provider of consequences. ~ Rico Lebrun

I like drawing. I like to spend the day drawing, the process is important for me. Drawing is a just a pleasure and it's nice to keep it going. ~ Tomm Moore

You can only learn to paint by drawing, for drawing is a way of reserving a place for color in advance. ~ Andre Lhote

I'm a believer that you shouldn't really talk about the drawing until you're done with the drawing. ~ Josh Trank

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself. ~ Taylor Hackford

It is the bareness of drawing that I like. The act of drawing is what locates, suggests, discovers. At times it seems enough to draw, without the distractions of color and mass. Yet it is an old ambition to make drawing and painting one. ~ Philip Guston

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood. ~ Michael Crichton

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing. ~ David Hockney

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk. ~ Paul Klee

For me, travelling and drawing the world, experiencing as much as possible first hand, has been very important. Making notes, drawing and writing on the move, became second nature. ~ Michael Foreman

I grew up with a pencil. A pencil was my computer at the time and so drawing, drawing, drawing and the tools of drawing where the usual ones and eventually then you graduated from the tools when the work increases and you start to draw by freehand as precise as possible and as accurate as possible, and I was pretty good at that. ~ Massimo Vignelli

A drawing has never killed anyone. ~ Charb

Drawing is a form of probing. And the first generic impulse to draw derives from the human need to search, to plot points, to place things and to place oneself. ~ John Berger

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

The subject should be observed more for shape and color than for drawing ... precise drawing is dry and hampers the impression of the whole, it destroys all sensations. ~ Camille Pissarro

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something. ~ Marjane Satrapi

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. ~ Paul Cezanne

It wasn't that I wanted to be an artist. But when I took my first drawing class with the painter Doug Ohlson, I could never finish a drawing. ~ Lynne Tillman

Not even pencil or charcoal is needed. Drawing can also be done with a brush. But drawing is a must, if not, no painting can resist. ~ Raul Soldi

All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing is always my notation. ~ Ellsworth Kelly

Think, for a moment, of the countless happy childhood hours you spent with this amazing device: Drawing perfect horizontals, drawing perfect verticals, drawing really spastic diagonals, trying to scrape away the silver powder from the window so you could look inside. ~ Dave Barry

Drawing is putting a line around an idea. ~ Henri Matisse

Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember. ~ Carolee Schneemann

I admired anybody who could make a buck with his drawing. ~ Jack Kirby

If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible. ~ Alberto Giacometti

You are remaking the world, Noah. Drawing by drawing ~ Jandy Nelson

Drawing is an idea more than fact. ~ Jack Shadbolt

Skip perfection. A lame drawing is better than no drawing. ~ Danny Gregory

Well, back to the old drawing board. ~ Peter Arno

I've always considered myself a graphic artists - a draftsman - as opposed to a typist. I do still work on a drawing table. At times drawing on a computer feels like I'm drawing on an Etch-a-Sketch. ~ Michael Schwab

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. ~ Henri Matisse

Well, back to the drawing board. ~ Peter Arno

From an early age, I had always loved drawing. Laying on the floor, in front of the fire, drawing from my imagination, marching soldiers, dive bombers, spaceships and monsters. Now, suddenly, I was drawing from real life! ~ Michael Foreman

Drawing is the true test of art. ~ Horace

When I'm drawing, I only do that at home, really, at my drawing table. But writing I could do in other places. So I've written in airports, in hotels, different places. ~ Kevin Henkes

But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes. ~ Roy Lichtenstein

When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things. ~ John Irving

Drawing is the sum of directions. ~ Andre Lhote

Bollocks," Ryan said. "I've seen you draw. You're very good, especially at drawing portraits."

James almost laughed. He wasn't all that good at drawing portraits. He was good at drawing Ryan. ~ Alessandra Hazard

I started drawing in first grade. Because the kid next to me was drawing, and I remember thinking: I want to be able to do that! ~ Dan Povenmire

I've been drawing as long as I can remember. I think all children draw as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing. ~ Adam Hughes

The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft

Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention. ~ Robert Henri

Drawing Lavi's smile eases me precisely because he has such a sad fate. ~ Katsura Hoshino

I threw [Picasso's] drawing on the floor and in doing so, threw away about £50m. ~ Brian Blessed

Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful. ~ Susanna Clarke

Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life. ~ Sophocles

Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth. ~ Alexander Kotov

When I'm drawing - and here drawing is very different from writing or reasoning - I have the impression at certain moments of participating in something like a visceral function, such as digestion or sweating, a function that is independent of the conscious will. This impression is exaggerated, but the practice or pursuit of drawing touches, or is touched by, something prototypical and anterior to logical reasoning. ~ John Berger

Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge ~ John Ruskin

Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation. ~ Henri Matisse

Every writer is going to end up drawing from their own experiences in one way or another. ~ Greg Rucka

We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time. ~ Adam Sedgwick

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually. ~ Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer, and clearer still. The image is passing through you in a physiological way, into your brain, into your memory - where it stays - it's transmitted by your hands. ~ Martin Gayford

Lose your inhibitions about drawing and just do it. ~ Chris Riddell

I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days. ~ Kirsty Gallacher

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

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical. ~ P.J. Harvey

I usually use quick sketches that I accumulated from the figure drawing classes I once instructed. ~ Frank Bruno

Draw, as much and as often as you can. When drawing lies fallow, the skill diminishes. ~ Gene Black

With drawing, I am acutely aware of creating something on a sheet of paper. It is a sensual act, which you cannot say about the act of writing. In fact, I often turn to drawing to recover from the writing. ~ Gunter Grass

Sometimes when I am drawing outside - when it is cold out it gets difficult (my hand gets slower when it is really cold) because I do not like wearing a glove while drawing, because I cannot feel the paper right. ~ Jason Polan

While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not with the pencil he is using, but with an old-fashioned goose pen, and not with the quill end but with the feather end. As if hundreds of butterflies have settled all over my face, and are softly opening and closing their wings. ~ Margaret Atwood

After I'd drawn the grasses, I started seeing them. Whereas if you'd just photographed them, you wouldn't be looking as intently as you do when you are drawing, so it wouldn't affect you that much. ~ Martin Gayford

The drawing of a 'Pipeline Wave' started with Billabong as a commission for their 2009 Pipeline Masters campaign. My 'Pipeline Wave' drawing later became the start of my 'Waterworks Collection' for gallery prints. ~ John Van Hamersveld

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line. ~ Sol LeWitt

And as we live our lives we discover - drawing toward us the thin threads attached to each - what has been lost. I closed my eyes and tried to bring to mind as many beautiful lost things as I could. Drawing them closer, holding on to them. ~ Haruki Murakami

You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue. ~ Carol Ann Duffy

Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death. ~ Martha Ostenso

Drawing on a computer doesn't make any sense to me. It's not intuitive. ~ Chris Ware

Drawing at its best is not what your eyes see but what our mind understands. ~ Millard Sheets

None of us knew what this power plant looked like. We had no schematic drawing. ~ William Scranton

When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to? ~ Bob Monkhouse

You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer. ~ James Dyson

Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans. ~ Kofi Annan

Sometimes a collage element I hit upon can inspire the entire drawing. ~ Laura Owens

Form, color, composition, drawing, are auxiliaries, any one of which ... can be dispensed with. ~ Harold Rosenberg

Right now it seems like the girls are drawing more attention to country music. ~ Miranda Lambert

A cool tattoo design is any drawing that would also look good saggy. ~ Demetri Martin

When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well. ~ Antony Sher

For me drawing is an attempt to understand what I feel about the world I live in. ~ Brian Froud

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make. ~ David Hockney

I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing. ~ Zoey Deutch

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing. ~ Layne Staley

Survive today. Figure out crayon drawing of destiny later. ~ Rick Riordan

I have been drawing all my life. ~ Dick Bruna

We must cling only to drawing. ~ Nicolas De Stael

You can never do too much drawing. ~ Tintoretto

I like drawing most everything I see, but sometimes the light will hit something in a certain way that I just cannot capture the thing the way I would like with a drawing, so I think taking a picture might be the way to document what I am seeing better. ~ Jason Polan

Drawing is ... not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods. ~ Henri Matisse

He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter. ~ William Blake

Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk. ~ Paul Klee

It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes. ~ David Hockney

We do a wealth of stuff (live), drawing from over the years. ~ Jorma Kaukonen