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Evidently, a given object took no particular amount of time to draw; instead the artist took the tim...

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I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a...

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George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something co...

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Provided with a case of pencils, and some sheets of paper, I used to take a seat apart from them, ne...

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As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of bi...

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My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest tri...

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A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.

With lead he shaded love into the woman's eyes.

I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some cr...

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

If I were to draw, I would apply myself only to studying the form of inanimate objects," I said some...

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Italo CalvinoIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler

A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue...

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A drawing is a translation. That is to say each mark on the paper is consciously realted, not only t...

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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnec...

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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught ab...

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All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

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John RuskinThe Elements of Drawing

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, an...

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It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human...

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People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the b...

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Everyone thinks they can write a play you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is...

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Toutes les erreurs de la critique commises à mon égard, à mes débuts, furent qu'elle ne vit pas qu'i...

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It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important...

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I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, ...

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Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance fro...

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Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically a...

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

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In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my gre...

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