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The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. -- John James Audubon
I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand. -- Dieter Rams
I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line. -- Ellsworth Kelly
I was absolutely lost in love and life when I did my drawings. Time stood still. -- Kevyn Aucoin
I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven. -- Iain Banks
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 think of my drawing style like handwriting: it's a mix of whatever handwriting you're born with, plus bits and pieces you've pilfered from other people around you. -- Roz Chast
In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books. -- Dick Bruna
My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office. -- Ralph Allen
Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting. -- Patti Smith
Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy. -- Cathy Guisewite
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
I tend to write first thing, and then do my drawing later. I like to draw at night. But often I go for long stretches without drawing, because I'm trying to figure out what I'm writing. -- Alison Bechdel
I got a signed document from Bullock's saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock's! -- Richard P. Feynman
I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate. -- Kate Greenaway
I showed the grown ups my maasterpiece, andI asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered why be scared of a hat? My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw. -- Scott Adams
Someday when I understand more things than I do now, the fundamentals of my drawing will be so tightly woven into those of existence that I will easily and naturally find the design which is the answer to many questions. Meanwhile, I draw continuously. -- Rico Lebrun
That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings. -- Jim Woodring
I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar, were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects. -- Jacob Epstein
I was once in a very, very bad car accident. So my drawing arm is full of pins and platinum stuff. Occasionally it hurts. But I found that after the arm was put back together I could draw better than before. I have no idea why. -- Bernard Tschumi
I really wanted to be a cartoonist, and I was in 4th or 5th grade and I would bring my drawings in, and I'd look around, and everyone could draw better than me. Everyone. My drawings were just awful. So that's why I had to write. -- R. L. Stine
My books should feel like you're getting a peek into a private world: a diary no one was meant to read. As soon as I start thinking, 'This book is going to be published,' my drawing becomes calculated and deliberate. It's one of the ways I trick myself. -- Jeffrey Brown
All my work begins with drawings. -- Ellsworth Kelly
I have been drawing all my life. -- Dick Bruna
My first artistic love was drawing and painting. -- Wood Harris
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. -- Robert Benchley
Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing. -- Jim Davis
I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings. -- Carlos Fuentes
As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow. -- Wally Lamb
I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life. -- Alexander McQueen
My drawing for women is really curvy. My drawings for men are actually quite angular. -- Christian Louboutin
Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work. -- Gunter Grass
In 1912, when I was working in The Hague, I first saw a drawing by Louis Sullivan of one of his buildings. It interested me. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can. -- Jim Dine
For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive. -- Shahzia Sikander
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
I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually. -- Jennifer Yuh Nelson
I have a fairly limited drawing style. I'm not like my friend Derek Kirk Kim, who can pretty much change his style at will. My drawing style can handle some of my stories, but not all of them. -- Gene Luen Yang
We made drawings the size of a whole quarter of a room ceiling, which we would then send on to the model makers. I did this every day for two years. Even now I can draw cartouches with my eyes closed. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I'm drawing in my head pretty much. -- Nelson Shanks
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. -- Mark Twain
My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards. -- Marie Dressler
I have drawn all my life, I don't know how to live without drawing. -- Eduardo Chillida
I love drawing what the character is feeling, in my comics, with no dialogue. -- Vera Brosgol
The only thing I ever wanted to be was a cartoonist. That's my Life. DRAWING. -- Charles M. Schulz
My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people. -- Laurie Anderson
When I was in fourth grade I was drawing Jordans when my mama couldn't afford them. -- Kanye West
It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing. -- Deanna Petherbridge
It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand. -- Henri Rousseau
I have been drawing and creating visual works my entire life, as long as I can remember. -- Brandon Boyd
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. -- John James Audubon
Well, I love tattoos and have been drawing them on my binders in school since I was little. -- Kimberly Caldwell
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Well, it's always been my nature to take chances My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances -- Bob Dylan
The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each. -- Bill Watterson
I didn't begin my life in 1975 with 'Horses.' I recorded 'Horses' in 1975, but was drawing in Paris in 1969. -- Patti Smith
My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. -- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers. -- Robyn Hitchcock
My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. -- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything. -- Jim Dine
As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much. -- Chris Van Allsburg
I would draw my own comic book characters listening to metal. The drawing and music kind of went hand in hand. -- Alan Robert
I'll always be here waiting for you, he said, touching my chest with his fingertips, drawing a shape of a heart. -- Karice Bolton
I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist. -- Patti Smith
In my work I've never done preliminary drawing, because it's sometimes difficult to repeat something or to continue when the urgency's gone. -- Deanna Petherbridge
There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword. -- Ulysses S. Grant
My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values. -- Theodore Robinson
Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do?it's ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience. -- William Eggleston
I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths. -- Natalie Babbitt
I think when I'm drawing, I'm seeing what's happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in my head. -- Brian Selznick
It was the building from the drawing in my brain. And if you don't think that's a weird sentence, maybe you should reread it. -- James Patterson
To be sociable, I puffed on a marijuana cigarette, but I didn't inhale...I just hate the idea of drawing smoke into my lungs. -- Tony Abbott
My drawing began as a way to count my blessings. To study, capture, catalog the things that, despite it all, make my life rich. -- Danny Gregory
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 have a theory that I did most of my observing probably before I was twenty, stored it, and am still drawing on it. -- Joyce Grenfell
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
I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw. -- John Ruskin
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 was aware that my nomination was drawing a lot of attention, particularly in the Latino world, not just in Puerto Rico. It was touching. -- Sonia Sotomayor
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 as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it. -- Jim Hodges
The early cars already are drawing deep breaths past my door. And last night's phrases sick with lack of basis are still writhing on my floor. -- Fiona Apple
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
I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture. -- Hussein Chalayan
Going to so many book events keeps me connected with my readership while constantly reminding me that all the long hours at the drawing desk are worthwhile. -- Raina Telgemeier
Going back to the elementary school days, I was always drawing. I entered a Victory poster competition and won the top award that recognized my artistic instincts. -- Paul Smith
I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake. -- Peter Wright
Drawing on my past experiences, I used a lot of erasers. My aging wisdom is starting to look a lot like a nude portrait of Alice Neel. -- Jarod Kintz
My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself. -- Lillie Langtry
I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it's not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days. -- Billy Connolly
There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that it will eventually have text. -- Raymond Pettibon
It wasn't that I wanted to be an artist. But when I took my first drawing class with the painter Doug Ohlson, I could never finish a drawing. -- Lynne Tillman
I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L' out of me. -- Bil Keane
Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings. -- Oscar Niemeyer
Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings. -- Oscar Niemeyer
I'm just finding that when I'm sitting down and drawing the pages, it always takes me in a different direction than what I had in mind in my head. -- David Finch
I've been drawing all my life, just as a hobby, without really having shows or anything. It's just an agreeable thing to do, and I recommend it to everybody. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Ideas mostly come from the work itself. Often when I'm drawing, the words will be bouncing around in my head, and when I'm writing, ideas about the drawing happen. -- Lynne Rae Perkins
Everyone [of my kids] can ride a bike now, so the park has had a big resurgence in our life. We also play a lot of dumb drawing games. -- Julie Bowen
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

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