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  • I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited. -- Mary Quant
  • When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing. -- David Hockney
  • 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'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
  • 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
  • I would always be painting and drawing. If I was stuck at home, I was in the basement working on a painting. -- Terry Crews
  • 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
  • I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am. -- Danny Huston
  • The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time. -- Ellar Coltrane
  • I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment. -- P. J. Harvey
  • My first artistic love was drawing and painting. -- Wood Harris
  • Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia. -- Barry McGee
  • Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity. -- Quentin Blake
  • I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical. -- PJ Harvey
  • I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting. -- Jackson Pollock
  • I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days. -- Kirsty Gallacher
  • I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more. -- Charles M. Blow
  • 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 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical. -- PJ Harvey
  • Try drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination. -- Kevin Henkes
  • 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
  • When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting. -- Roma Downey
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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