Draughtsman Quotes

#1. Vuillard balances too far on the side of fantasy ... the people in his pictures are not properly defined. As he's an admirable draughtsman it must be that he just doesn't want to give them mouths and hands and feet.

Paul Signac

#2. Michelangelo's contemporaries thought him the greatest artist who ever lived and called him 'divine.' His reputation as sculptor, architect, painter and draughtsman has not subsequently been surpassed, and who is to say his contemporaries were wrong?

Michael Ayrton

#3. Jesus is no draughtsman of political blueprints, he is the one who vanquished evil through suffering. It looked as though evil had triumphed on the cross, but the real victory belonged to
Jesus.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#4. I have heard a good story of Charles Fox. When his house was on fire, he found all efforts to save it useless, and, being a good draughtsman, he went up to the next hill to make a drawing of the fire,
the best instance of philosophy I ever heard of.

Robert Southey

#5. My father, Tommy, who was a trained draughtsman, played for Preston North End in the Finney era. He liked football but did not love it as I do.

Mark Lawrenson

#6. How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."

Aaron Scharf

#7. By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.

Nikola Tesla

#8. If you take care of the pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.

Jeffrey Archer

#9. Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries.

James J. Martin

#10. Meditation helps you to meet your edge; it's where you actually come up against it and you start to lose it.

Pema Chodron

#11. Truth is not the rule, but the exception to the rule.

Marty Rubin

#12. No one remembers you for standing in the crowd . But they do remember you for standing out of it.

Eddie Harris

#13. I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.

Tom Tancredo

#14. ...Chanel didn't start out with a mission statement, nor a corporate vision, nor a roadmap for success, nor timeline for achieving her goals, nor an action item list, nor any of those other high-falutin' concepts we associate with mega modern multinational success stories.

Karen Karbo

#15. We live with our past, for better and worse. What happens, happens and we must move on.

Chris Cole