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I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. -- Le Corbusier
Drawing is still the bottom line. -- Robert Genn
Drawing is the honesty of art. -- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. -- John W. Gardner
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
A drawing is simply a line going for a walk. -- Paul Klee
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. -- Robert Benchley
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. -- Henri Matisse
Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue -- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. -- John James Audubon
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. -- Salvador Dali
Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic. -- Keith Haring
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
Drawing is deception. -- M. C. Escher
Drawing and Drinking Coffe -- Gerard Way
Drawing is the root of everything. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Drawing is the sum of directions. -- Andre Lhote
Drawing is your understanding of form. -- Edgar Degas
Drawing and composition are the same thing. -- John French Sloan
Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination. -- Tim Burton
Drawing is the honesty of the art. -- Salvador Dali
Drawing is an idea more than fact. -- Jack Shadbolt
Drawing is the true test of art. -- Horace
Drawing is putting a line around an idea. -- Henri Matisse
Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge -- John Ruskin
Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason. -- Pierre Bonnard
Drawing takes time. A line has time in it -- David Hockney
Drawing attention to myself has never been a goal. -- Alison Elliott
Drawing up her spear, Ellemist lunged towards the mighty leviathan. -- Muse
Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember. -- Carolee Schneemann
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. -- Mark Twain
Drawing is of the spirit; color is of the senses. -- Henri Matisse
Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful. -- Susanna Clarke
Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. -- Frederick Franck
Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk. -- Paul Klee
Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear. -- Joseph Joubert
Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly. -- John Howe
Drawing on a computer doesn't make any sense to me. It's not intuitive. -- Chris Ware
Drawing is the skeleton of what you do and color is its flesh. -- Nicolas Poussin
Drawing or painting allows the artist to know himself as a whole person. -- Joseph C Zinker
To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought. -- Henri Matisse
Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form. -- Edgar Degas
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Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience. -- Walter J. Phillips
Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists. -- Adrian McKinty
Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache. -- David Hockney
Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth. -- Alexander Kotov
Drawing at its best is not what your eyes see but what our mind understands. -- Millard Sheets
Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Drawing is the necessary beginning of everything [in Art], and not having it, one has nothing. -- Giorgio Vasari
Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp. -- Robert Crumb
Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper. -- Eduardo Souto de Moura
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. -- Paul Cezanne
Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make. -- David Hockney
Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment. -- Adam Gopnik
Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing. -- Robert Henri
Drawing is something I do on the side, I like to see it be of use at times. -- Coeur de pirate
The Secret of Drawing consists of just two things: 1) Making lines on paper; and 2) Choosing where they go. -- James A. Owen
Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods. -- Henri Matisse
Drawing Is An Escape From All The Unecessary Things In Life That Get In The Way Of Being Free -- Jamie Hewlett
Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint. -- Arshile Gorky
Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing. -- Marjane Satrapi
Drawing is the most inalienable medium. It is private; it practically doesn't have an audience in mind, just the artist's expression. -- Betty Goodwin
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. -- John Berger
We are all different. God made us that way. Drawing a line in the sand due to that is indeed unfortunate. -- Jill Telford
Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing. -- Irving Stone
Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience. -- Marc Davis
With six small diamonds for his eyes He walks upon the summer skies, Drawing from his silken blouse The lacework of his dwelling house. -- Robert P. T. Coffin
Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself. -- Marjane Satrapi
'As I am, so are these. As are these, so am I.' Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill. -- Gautama Buddha
Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper. -- Pablo Picasso
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
Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw... When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest. -- Paul Cezanne
Drawing on my past experiences, I used a lot of erasers. My aging wisdom is starting to look a lot like a nude portrait of Alice Neel. -- Jarod Kintz
Drawing is like the first kiss. It carries within it the deepest emotion and the challenge of the first step. It is the first cry after birth -- Ala Bashir
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
I draw like other people bite their nails. -- Pablo Picasso
I work on drawing as a final product. -- Deanna Petherbridge
In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt. -- Pablo Picasso
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
To draw you must close your eyes and sing. -- Pablo Picasso
A line is a dot that went for a walk. -- Paul Klee
The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood. -- Gautama Buddha
The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools. -- Mary Leakey
A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption. -- James Thurber
It is not bright colors but good drawing that makes figures beautiful. -- Titian
The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun. -- Nikola Tesla
I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking. -- Ben Nicholson
When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion. -- Henri Matisse
All good and genuine draftsmen draw according to the picture inscribed in their minds, and not according to nature. -- Charles Baudelaire
As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward. -- Vincent Van Gogh
You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writing and drawing a character. -- Rebecca Sugar
When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything. -- Ellsworth Kelly
I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad idea. -- Paul Conrad
For me, drawing was an outlet. No one in school said, 'Oh, she can do sports,' or, 'She's pretty,' but I could draw. -- Roz Chast
It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character. -- Camille Pissarro
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
My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can. -- Jim Dine
If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about getting the outline of the forest. -- Jeff Koons
Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading. -- Leonardo da Vinci
I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing. -- David Byrne
I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades. -- Meg Cabot
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
By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company. -- Nikola Tesla
I was once in a very, very bad car accident. So my drawing arm is full of pins and platinum stuff. Occasionally it hurts. But I found that after the arm was put back together I could draw better than before. I have no idea why. -- Bernard Tschumi
I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place. -- Lorrie Moore
There's always room out there for the hand-drawn image. I personally like the imperfection of hand drawing as opposed to the slick look of computer animation. But you can do good stuff either way. The Pixar movies are amazing in what they do, but there's plenty of independent animators who are doing really amazing things as well. -- Matt Groening
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
My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books. -- Jude Deveraux
Pure drawing is an abstraction. -- Paul Cezanne
A drawing has never killed anyone. -- Charb
Well, back to the drawing board. -- Peter Arno
We must cling only to drawing. -- Nicolas de Stael
I have been drawing all my life. -- Dick Bruna
Here is a drawing of a stapler: -- Dave Eggers
You can never do too much drawing. -- Tintoretto
I'm drawing in my head pretty much. -- Nelson Shanks
Well, back to the old drawing board. -- Peter Arno
Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic. -- Rod Serling

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