Quotes with drawing

  • What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
  • All comic books take place in built environments, and I was very good at drawing people and animals, and stuff like that, but I hadn't spent much energy drawing buildings. So I thought, maybe I could, and then I became an architect.
  • Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.
  • If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Alexander McQueen British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.
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  • James Thurber A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Robert South Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
    Robert South
    English churchman (1634 - 1716)
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  • Bjarke Ingels All comic books take place in built environments, and I was very good at drawing people and animals, and stuff like that, but I hadn't spent much energy drawing buildings. So I thought, maybe I could, and then I became an architect.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Brad Holland All the other kids in ninth grade were drawing hot rods and cocker spaniels and getting blue ribbons in art class. I was getting rejection slips from the 'Saturday Evening Post.'
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Barry McGee As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
    Barry McGee
    American artist
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  • Frank Moore Colby Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Bret Harte But still when the mists of doubt prevail, And we lie becalmed by the shores of age, We hear from the misty troubled shore The voce of children gone before. Drawing the soul to its anchorage.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Joseph Joubert Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Robert Benchley Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Bill Budge Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.
    Bill Budge
    American video game programmer and designer (1954 - )
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  • Bill Cosby George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Michael Crichton I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood. [On why he gave up medicine]
    Michael Crichton
    American author of science fiction books and film screenplays (1942 - 2008)
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  • Bill Plympton I'm much better known in France and Germany and Spain than I am in the U.S. When I go to Russia, I get mobbed; I have groups of fans waiting for me out in the hotel lobby, waiting for me to come down off the elevator. In China, I almost got beat up because people were trying to get me to do a drawing for them.
    Bill Plympton
    American animator, graphic designer and cartoonist (1946 - )
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  • Berenice Marlohe I'm very passionate about art, music, drawing, acting, so I'd like to have the chance to get the larger choice regarding acting.
    Berenice Marlohe
    French actress
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  • Alberto Giacometti I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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