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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then. -- James Purefoy
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
At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them -- Shonda Rhimes
You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. -- Shonda Rhimes
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
In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
I close my eyes and can see men drawing lines in the dust. America pushes through the membrane of mist and smoke, and I'm a small boy again in Bogalusa. -- Yusef Komunyakaa
Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at. -- Robyn Hitchcock
I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line. -- Ellsworth Kelly
People seem to sometimes have a difficulty drawing that line between the character and the person. -- Clark Duke
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 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
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
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
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
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
Drawing is putting a line around an idea. -- Henri Matisse
Line is the most powerful device of drawing. -- John French Sloan
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. -- Oscar Wilde
Drawing takes time. A line has time in it -- David Hockney
The essence of drawing is the line exploring space. -- Andy Goldsworthy
A drawing is simply a line going for a walk. -- Paul Klee
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
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
Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line. -- Sol LeWitt
We are all different. God made us that way. Drawing a line in the sand due to that is indeed unfortunate. -- Jill Telford
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
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
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
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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