Drawing Quotes

The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
Buddha

Blood, Tongue, Knife

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
John W. Gardner

Life, Art, Eraser

What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?
Marilyn Monroe

Good, Another, Next

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dali

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
Walt Disney

Time, Business, Mind

I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.
Dr. Seuss

End, Try, Start

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

Art, Line, Morality

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
Vincent Van Gogh

Great, Everything, Again

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley

Nothing, Said, Language

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Samuel Butler

Life, Art, Premises

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Life, Faith, Battle

I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.
Gary Oldman

Children, Put, Away

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
Le Corbusier

Less, Lies, Talking

I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.
Victoria Beckham

Heart, Child, Presents

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

Walk, Simply, Line

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

Music, Writing, Doorway

A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
David Ogilvy

Good, Attention, Product

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.
Mason Cooley

Longer, York, Paris

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.
Chuck Jones

Work, Good, Thinking

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

Nature, Everything, Pure

Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos, eating, hanging out, things that make noise - all are now the norm, often edging out much else.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Else, Often

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

Words, Word, Hand

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

Making, Advantage, Gesture

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

Nothing, Everything, Else

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.
James Thurber

Down, Level, Dragged

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Meditation, Reaction, Immediate

One thing I do personally started 20 years ago. I started meditating, and I know twice a day I can kind of let everything drop. It's just about being quiet, like drawing back the day, and it allows me to have energy.
Hugh Jackman

Everything, Energy, Started

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

Mind, Rather, Playing

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
Jean de la Bruyere

Great, Others, Less

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
W. H. Auden

Mistake, Company, Full

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