Drawing Quotes

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.

I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.

When we distributed the paper and crayons, they were fighting over the blue crayon. Everyone wanted to start with the blue, and that was the water. One drawing shows the trees under water. I was really moved.

But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published.

I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing - without the traditional interruption of academic training.

When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists in the underground never did anything if they weren't stoned, That was the prerequisite for sitting down and drawing.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

Almost every scene, I re-think as I'm about to start drawing it, and at least half of the time I'm changing dialogue or whatever, or adding scenes or different things.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

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.

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.

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.

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

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.

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.

The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.

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.