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Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia. -- Barry McGee
You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.' -- Zack Snyder
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
I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art. -- Sigmar Polke
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
This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution. -- Edvard Munch
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
I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid. -- Jonathan Lethem
All the other kids in ninth grade were drawing hot rods and cocker spaniels and getting blue ribbons in art class. I was getting rejection slips from the 'Saturday Evening Post.' -- Brad Holland
When I left art school and went in search of work, visiting publishers and showing them my drawings and illustrations, I was met with a polite and sometimes enthusiastic response but no commissions. -- Chris Riddell
Things like anatomy and drawing and design and color had pretty much been drop-kicked out of the curriculum in the '70s, when I was studying art, in favor of abstraction and minimalism. -- David Small
My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. -- Eli Broad
I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy. -- Steven Wright
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
My mother was a very big inspiration. She loved fashion. I loved art in school, and I was very good at drawing. I could sit at the table forever and just dream up collections and draw. -- Nina Garcia
You know, comics were created at the same time as the cinema. And the cinema very quickly became a major art. Cartooning didn't become a major art. There's a reason for that. People don't know how to deal with drawings. -- Marjane Satrapi
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
Up until the last minute, it was art and drawing for me. That was the first real and natural thing I thought I was good at and loved to do. But I developed a similar kind of love for music. -- James Bay
I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters. -- Billy Childish
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
Drawing is the honesty of art. -- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Drawing is the true test of art. -- Horace
Drawing is the honesty of the art. -- Salvador Dali
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. -- Oscar Wilde
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The art of drawing is the art of omission. -- Max Liebermann
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. -- John W. Gardner
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. -- Samuel Butler
Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ? -- Vincent Van Gogh
Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk. -- Paul Klee
Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified. -- Maxwell Perkins
Art is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making. -- Stephen Metcalf
Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training? -- Mahatma Gandhi
Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability? -- Edwin Catmull
Writing is an abstract art of drawing pictures of the conscious and subconscious mind with words. -- Debasish Mridha
It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing. -- Deanna Petherbridge
I was 11 when I was first introduced to live drawing classes and going to art school. -- Kehinde Wiley
Drawing is the necessary beginning of everything [in Art], and not having it, one has nothing. -- Giorgio Vasari
Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment. -- Adam Gopnik
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing. -- Henry Moore
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. -- Salvador Dali
Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint. -- Arshile Gorky
You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real. -- Zack Snyder
I was constantly drawing and colouring. I had an immense love for art and anything which involved art fascinated me. -- St. Lucia
I'm very passionate about art, music, drawing, acting, so I'd like to have the chance to get the larger choice regarding acting. -- Berenice Marlohe
I think making a movie is like drawing or creating an art piece. The artwork reflects part of your personality, but not all. -- Tony Jaa
As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture. -- Prince Charles
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
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature. -- O. Henry
I enjoy the art, and I enjoy drawing. I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. -- Nathan Fillion
You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever. -- Shooter Jennings
Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill. -- Terry Crews
The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is. -- John Ruskin
Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life. -- Neil Simon
I couldn't go into the haphazard drawing or the paintings, the splashing of paint. I wanted to go back to a completely dry drawing, a dry conception of art. -- Marcel Duchamp

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