21 quotes found
“I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it ri...”
“When I started to draw, most of my influences were from other painters and illustrators, so I was drawing landscape at second hand, really. The trees were Rackham trees, or trees that I had seen in...”
“I wish I could draw you how I see you. I'd draw a boy with the most magnetic smile, and the kindest hands, and eyes that are gloomy, but can sometimes be bright. I'd draw a boy who deserves to see ...”
“I like to work in watercolor, with as little under-drawing as I can get away with. I like the unpredictability of a medium which is affected as much by humidity, gravity, the way that heavier parti...”
“Everything is happening according to the drawing [past causes], You just have to see them. Desires are drawings too.”
“When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged. I love trying to render not just...”
“Drawing things makes them seem more real and makes me feel more alive. It also makes me pin down and remember things - landscapes, season, weather, occasions, incidents, people - that would otherwi...”
“If I were to draw, I would apply myself only to studying the form of inanimate objects," I said somewhat imperiously, because I wanted to change the subjects and also because a natural inclination ...”
“I noticed that the [drawing] teacher didn't tell people much... Instead, he tried to inspire us to experiment with new approaches. I thought of how we teach physics: We have so many techniques - so...”
“Over the last forty years, many educators, decision-makers, and even some parents have come to regard the arts as peripheral, and lets face it, frivolousespecially the visual arts, with their conno...”
“People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.”
“There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.”
“I practiced drawing all the time and became very interested in it. If I was at a meeting that wasn't getting anywhere - like the one where Carl Rogers came to Caltech to discuss with us whether Cal...”
“A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.”
“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.”
“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.”
“Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.”
“Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.”
“Drawing the desperate and the adrift, Los Angeles has long been the dumping ground of dreams both real and cinematic.”
“If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you'll probably get the humor in the audio part.”
