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  • Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity. -- Quentin Blake
  • I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days. -- Kirsty Gallacher
  • 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
  • My first artistic love was drawing and painting. -- Wood Harris
  • I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that. -- Gail Carson Levine
  • From being a young kid I was always drawing and painting, usually stuff like private parts or bloody images but always with a comedy twist to it. -- Tom Six
  • I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting. -- Mike Thompson
  • We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing and painting, in mountaineering, or in just being there. -- Olaus Murie
  • It is the bareness of drawing that I like. The act of drawing is what locates, suggests, discovers. At times it seems enough to draw, without the distractions of color and mass. Yet it is an old ambition to make drawing and painting one. -- Philip Guston
  • When we use numbers we are using symbols, and it is only when we transfer them to life that they become actualities. The same is true with drawing and painting. They are to be learned, not as rules, but as actualities. Then the rules become appropriate. -- Kimon Nicolaides
  • I spent much of my college life prepping for other careers, but I was always drawing and painting whenever I had free time. Eventually, thanks to the internet, I started noticing that there were such things as art schools, and professional artists, and people making a living doing a variety of types of art. -- Julie Dillon
  • I always liked doing all sorts of different things. As a kid growing up, I was always drawing and painting - always doing art. But I also loved movies and music, so as I started doing everything, I liked every aspect. It's not really that I am a control freak; it's just that is what I love. -- Rob Zombie
  • When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting. -- Roma Downey
  • I had always loved cartoons, especially 'Bugs Bunny,' and I found I enjoyed making animated films. Even a 30-second commercial involved drawing and painting, storytelling, not to mention actors, music, and sound effects. -- Mordicai Gerstein
  • I do feel like animated films really combine a lot of different of art forms: film-making and writing and drawing and painting - to a certain extent, even sculpting. It's a wonderful medium to work with as a craftsman because it's such so rich and so varied and so expressive. -- John Musker
  • Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia. -- Barry McGee
  • I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited. -- Mary Quant
  • I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical. -- PJ Harvey
  • When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing. -- David Hockney
  • I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting. -- Jackson Pollock
  • When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well. -- Antony Sher
  • I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life. -- Rafael Moneo
  • I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more. -- Charles M. Blow
  • 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
  • I had so many ideas that I wanted to get out at once that it led to simple little drawings and paintings. -- Neil Farber
  • To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished. -- Jasper Johns
  • I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid. -- David Salle
  • Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures. -- Ellsworth Kelly
  • I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music. -- Brandon Boyd
  • My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the world that it is ugly, sick and hypocritical. -- George Grosz
  • I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing. -- John Dyer
  • All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing is always my notation. -- Ellsworth Kelly
  • My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this gap where I was doing graffiti in high school and making as much [traditional] art. -- Alec Monopoly
  • On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting. -- William Scott
  • I love telling stories. And even in single images, I tend to have stories inside them. I've always loved film, but I was making drawings and paintings and photographs. And you put art and narrative together, and that really is comics. -- Dave McKean
  • Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years. -- David Hockney
  • Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. -- John French Sloan
  • It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes. -- David Hockney
  • Without good drawing, the foundation of a painting will collapse. -- Ken Danby
  • The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done -- Pierre Bonnard
  • Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear. -- Joseph Joubert
  • You are not to think of painting as something separate from drawing. -- Kimon Nicolaides
  • I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium. -- David Hockney
  • Drawing or painting allows the artist to know himself as a whole person. -- Joseph C Zinker
  • Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school. -- Dianna Agron
  • I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • Try drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination. -- Kevin Henkes
  • I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical. -- PJ Harvey
  • Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue -- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
  • The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up. -- John Green
  • You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design. -- Matt Smith
  • Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions. -- Paul Cezanne
  • I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing. -- Frank Auerbach
  • Yeah, I mean I am somebody that makes an effort to go and see a lot of exhibitions, painting, drawing, sculpture. -- PJ Harvey
  • Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality. -- Edgar Degas
  • I would always be painting and drawing. If I was stuck at home, I was in the basement working on a painting. -- Terry Crews
  • There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it. -- John French Sloan
  • 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
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  • The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting (remark on printmaking). -- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase. -- Diane Lane
  • It's weird making a drawing of painting. I start to realize that charcoal is this incredibly fragile material. I'm making images of paintings out of dust. -- Robert Longo
  • 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
  • Lorelei sat at the window of her drawing room, painting in the fading daylight. It was yet another portrait of Jack, her favorite piece of fruit. -- Kinley MacGregor
  • 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
  • If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as you photograph. -- Bill Jay
  • Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software. -- Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • 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
  • Whether it is drawing or painting, skilled Artists usually deliver a faster result without jeopardizing the quality, simply because they don't have to waste their time on fixing mistakes. -- Igor Babailov
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