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Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts. -- Christopher Alexander
Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia. -- Barry McGee
I sit, I think, I make some drawings. As a designer, you cannot retire totally. -- Dieter Rams
Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend they'll last forever. -- Marlene Dumas
Buildings are always better than drawings and models. -- Rafael Moneo
Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms. -- Joseph McCabe
The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. -- John James Audubon
Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you. -- Chuck Jones
I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners. -- Vincent Van Gogh
We don't sell technical drawings except when they are incorporated into a drawing or a collage. -- Christo
Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn. -- Norman McLaren
Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette. -- Bill Blass
I don't look at my films or my old drawings much, so that was an interesting way to kind of reconnect with myself a bit. -- Tim Burton
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
My drawing skills probably froze around when I was 18... Now I'm more interested in the story, how the drawings, the layout can help express the stories and communicate them. -- Bjarke Ingels
Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm not sure what will come out. -- Sigmar Polke
I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures? -- Egon Schiele
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
Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings. -- Sol LeWitt
I became a fashion designer by accident. I loved to make portrait drawings when I was a teenager, and from that came the interest in what people were wearing and why they were wearing it. -- Ann Demeulemeester
We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it. -- Christo
I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I am trying to communicate through my writing. My images are like drawings in a science text book. -- Devdutt Pattanaik
In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft drawings, and I got a lot of attention for that, so that was very validating. But I didn't start cartooning until I was in college. -- Jeff Kinney
My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he didn't give her large sums to spend. So, she began buying prints and drawings. During my school days, I remember sitting in on many of the early meetings. -- David Rockefeller
When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside. -- Jeffrey Brown
I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also models of wood or any other material. These... enable us to examine... the work as a whole... and, before continuing any further, to estimate the likely trouble and expense. -- Leon Battista Alberti
I am still getting that love on 'The Walking Dead' for Daryl. I try to respond to everyone as much as I can. I am super appreciative of all the presents I get: all the paintings and all the drawings; the shirts, and the hats, and everything else. Everyone is super cool. I feel like I am not just doing a job, and I am not just doing it by myself. -- Norman Reedus
Don't animate drawings, animate feelings. -- Ollie Johnston
The drawings are terribly good. -- Christopher Fowler
I'm too old to make drawings. -- Quentin Crisp
All my work begins with drawings. -- Ellsworth Kelly
Some sculptors make drawings, I make heads. -- David Altmejd
My drawings are the result of my sculpture. -- Auguste Rodin
As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel. -- Sigmar Polke
Any questions?" "Ya why do your drawings suck so bad? -- Tite Kubo
Can I start by asking why your drawings abnormally suck? -- Tite Kubo
Draw, draw, hundreds of drawings. Try to remain humble. Smartness kills everything. -- Sherwood Anderson
You've got a million bad drawings in you; you better get started. -- Chuck Jones
Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms -- Joseph McCabe
If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings. -- Chuck Jones
Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at. -- Robyn Hitchcock
Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read. -- Chris Ware
Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate. -- Odilon Redon
Youâ??re not supposed to animate drawings. Youâ??re supposed to animate feelings. -- Ollie Johnston
I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings. -- Carlos Fuentes
I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand. -- Dieter Rams
Whenever I am tired of making photographs of drawings, I make drawings of photographs. -- Vik Muniz
I've been very influenced by Inuit art especially some drawings and watercolors I've seen. -- Marcel Dzama
You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected. -- Richard MacDonald
As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow. -- Wally Lamb
I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line. -- Ellsworth Kelly
I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own. -- Jasper Johns
I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people. -- Sally Phillips
My drawing for women is really curvy. My drawings for men are actually quite angular. -- Christian Louboutin
Comics are drawings, not photographs, and as such they present a subjective view of reality. -- Frederik L. Schodt
I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form. -- Agnes Denes
All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me. -- Tite Kubo
I am only an artist, my job is to make drawings not to make sense. -- William Kentridge
Maps are essential. Planning a journey without a map is like building a house without drawings. -- Mark Jenkins
In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built. -- Emilio Ambasz
Any sort of working drawings are simply diagrams. Architecture encourages your imagination to work that way. -- Paul Laffoley
The comics were not only stories to enjoy; for me they were drawings that possessed me. -- Jean Giraud
I'd like to study the drawings of kids. That's where the truth is, without a doubt. -- Andre Derain
Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work. -- Gunter Grass
I was absolutely lost in love and life when I did my drawings. Time stood still. -- Kevyn Aucoin
I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human. -- Vincent Van Gogh
A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers? -- Cassandra Clare
Doing fashion drawings was the only way I had to express myself when I was a teenager. -- Jean Paul Gaultier
My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front. -- Evan Sayet
My website's kind of fun for me. I get to do drawings on that. It's kind of fun. -- Jeff Bridges
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I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting. -- Jackson Pollock
I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary. -- Louise Bourgeois
The drawings need to be strong enough to stand alone, and not just work as part of a sequence. -- Richard McGuire
My drawings are another kind of music for me...they relax me and I think they all connect somehow. -- Shelby Lynne
My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish. -- John James Audubon
And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such. -- Andrew Wyeth
I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary. -- Gabriele Munter
All the drawings and sketches and clothes of Yves Saint Laurent in the '70s were so colorful, so bright. -- Frida Giannini
Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement. -- Gerald Scarfe
My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good. -- Ellsworth Kelly
Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas. -- Paul Mellon
I had so many ideas that I wanted to get out at once that it led to simple little drawings and paintings. -- Neil Farber
Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I am going to do some drawings or paintings...in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something. -- Gwen John
I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects. -- Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined. -- Odilon Redon
I rarely draw myself, in general, and if I do, I tend to do little cute manga-esque, almost bite-sized drawings of myself. -- Jim Lee
I have had sculptures cast in bronze, silver and aluminium. My drawings are all graphite or pigment ink and gouache on paper. -- Patricia Piccinini
Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out. -- Chuck Jones
We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form. -- Edwidge Danticat
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Any idiot that wants to make a couple of thousand drawings for a hundred feet of film is welcome to join the club. -- Winsor McCay
I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading. -- Ellsworth Kelly
A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets. -- Paul Gauguin
Women are important in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. But while their faces are seen everywhere- in oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, - their voices are never heard. -- Jan Marsh
When I was writing songs, I always thought I'd make more of a career out of the drawings, the comics even more than the music. -- Daniel Johnston
As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks. -- Viggo Mortensen
I've got two girls, and they both make beautiful drawings. One of them really has a gift for the way that she colors around certain lines. -- Mark Grotjahn
The first ten thousand drawings are the hardest. Put another way, you have ten thousand bad drawings within and should expel them as quickly as possible. -- Wallace Tripp
All of you here have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone. -- Chuck Jones
I suppose we carry photographs now, but I think it's rather wonderful that people used to carry drawings and watercolours. I wish people did that more often. -- Alison Jackson
Being on a trapeze is like dreaming. I feel totally outside of myself when I'm flying. You know, designing shoes, my imagination is flying in my drawings. -- Christian Louboutin
I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment. -- Alex Lifeson
Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in 'Ivan.' The drawings in the book look precisely like Stan. -- K. A. Applegate
My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point. -- James Thurber
In a way, the political cartoon drawings are things that are small and have humor and a childhood aesthetic and are often stronger to spread an opinion. -- Camille Henrot
The work, I suppose, is made in the editing, whereby I make literally hundreds of drawings, and then a much smaller percentage of those become the finished work. -- David Shrigley
I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more. -- David Hockney
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I think people are quite surprised that the handwriting I use in my drawings and paintings is my own handwriting. They're slightly shocked when I write them a letter. -- David Shrigley
If you don't use an image now you might have a place to put it in further down the line - and I have a lot of unfinished drawings. -- Raymond Pettibon
I like my drawings to be direct. I don't generally work on them for too long, but that doesn't mean that they are not works in their own right. -- Jeff Koons
There's a whole range of sources of inspiration for the drawings and stories. They come from dreams, hallucinations, pop songs, or other things I see in the world around me. -- Ryan McGinness
I learned my "facts of life" on toilet walls. I'd walk up in school bathrooms and there would be crude drawings and figures engaged in sex. That's how I learned. -- Liam Neeson
Practice by drawing things large, as if equal in representation and reality. In small drawings every large weakness is easily hidden; in the large, the smallest weakness is easily seen. -- Leon Battista Alberti
What do drawings mean to me? I really don't know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don't think happens with any other activity. -- John Berger
I think I was born an artist. But the key is that I have a mom that encouraged and supported my artistic side. She still has the stick-figure drawings framed. -- Julia Stiles

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