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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. -- Oscar Wilde
There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing. -- Toni Morrison
How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident. -- William Morris Hunt
The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll. -- Jerry Only
The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll. -- Jerry Only
A drawing is simply a line going for a walk. -- Paul Klee
People seem to sometimes have a difficulty drawing that line between the character and the person. -- Clark Duke
I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around the drawing aspect and construction my whole life. -- Kym Whitley
I use the old Strathmore vellum surface paper, which is the best paper you can get in the Western world for ink line drawing. It has a good, hard surface. -- Robert Crumb
My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books. -- Hamish Bowles
Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some of Picasso's drawings is precisely what makes them so masterful and extraordinary; the ability to express complete visions, feelings and portraits through a continuous line. -- Damien Hirst
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
Home gigs can be hard because it's an odd collision. More than anything, I feel self-conscious when my family are in the audience. I'm doing this job which is not quite acting - part of it is me, part performance. You're presenting a cartoon of yourself to people who know you as a line-drawing. -- Dylan Moran
Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being honest about your results; and drawing a clear line between the results, on the one hand, and your judgment calls about how those results support a hypothesis. -- Ben Goldacre
I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is a very rich and reactive surface. I begin by drawing on the canvas with a kind of loose line, very simply and freely. I paint very thinly, which allows me to change the drawing if I want to. -- Sean Scully
I think my most famous was 'Poco's Legend.' It's a white album with a simple line drawing of a horse. It almost has a Picasso feel to it. I remember that Rusty Young, the lead singer of the band, said, 'I want you to draw a horse for the song 'Legend,' which is about a phantom spirit horse. I want you to do it in several lines.' -- Phil Hartman
Drawing is still the bottom line. -- Robert Genn
Line is the most powerful device of drawing. -- John French Sloan
Drawing is putting a line around an idea. -- Henri Matisse
The essence of drawing is the line exploring space. -- Andy Goldsworthy
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Drawing takes time. A line has time in it -- David Hockney
Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk. -- Paul Klee
Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing. -- Robert Henri
It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables. -- Gil Kane
One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then. -- James Purefoy
Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature, drawing no line between what is spiritual and what is not. -- Laozi
I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers. -- Robyn Hitchcock
Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing. -- Irving Stone
We are all different. God made us that way. Drawing a line in the sand due to that is indeed unfortunate. -- Jill Telford
Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line. -- Sol LeWitt
Someone who is incapable of drawing, and cannot master line or colour perspective can always express themselves in some form of abstraction. -- Hans Werner Henze
Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere. -- Huston Smith
The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of drawing lines. -- Felix Frankfurter
Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought. -- John French Sloan
All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing. -- William Gurnall
I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross. -- Natalie Zea
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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