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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
Balthus

Eyes, Cannot, Pencil

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Life, Learned, Reason

The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously.
Drew Barrymore

Funny, Around, Her

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Love, Art, School

I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.
Daniel Radcliffe

Love, Art, Science

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
David Hockney

Time, Mean, Actually

On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.
David Hockney

Moment, Found, Using

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Horace Walpole

Men, Often, Full

For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks.
Alexis Bledel

Reason, Fact, Unknown

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?
David Byrne

Creativity, Once, Artist

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.
Sheryl Crow

Family, Nothing, Person

I've never played for a draw in my life.
Alex Ferguson

I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.
Billy Corgan

Business, Thinking, Why

Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Horace Walpole

Men, Full, Credit

Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.
Marilyn vos Savant

Person, Enough, Another

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.
John Cornyn

Religion, Politics, Islam

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Good, Art, Mind

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.
Annie Leibovitz

Different, Sometimes, Picture

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
Thomas Browne

Age, Envy, Wrinkles

Yeah, it is, because it's a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That's what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.
Eric Clapton

Good, Character, Real

All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.
David Bailey

Time, School, Exam

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.
Maurice Sendak

Work, Art, Parents

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Perfect, Cannot, Ability

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
Miguel de Cervantes

Humor, Him, Means

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.
Henry Louis Gates

Family, Experience, American

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
Robert Bolt

Death, Stand, Himself

No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.
Anne Lamott

Life, Good, Live

It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Life, Good, Writing

Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.
Jello Biafra

Good, Women, Islam

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
Barbara Hepworth

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