Drawing Quotes

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.

I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.

I have been watching and drawing the surface of Mars. It is wonderfully full of detail. There is certainly no question about there being mountains and large greatly elevated plateaus.

I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have.

One thing I do personally started 20 years ago. I started meditating, and I know twice a day I can kind of let everything drop. It's just about being quiet, like drawing back the day, and it allows me to have energy.

When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.

What Tim does is, he calls me and sends me the script. And then he sends me a drawing, an illustration of his image of me as the character. It's so great.

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.

I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.

You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.

Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium.

Doing Tim's film is always going to be the most pleasure. Let me just put it that way. So, without drawing favorites one way or the other, getting back with him and doing Mars Attacks! was certainly a special treat.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published.

Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.

We don't sell technical drawings except when they are incorporated into a drawing or a collage.

If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you'll probably get the humor in the audio part.

In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

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.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.