Nature Drawing Quotes

#1. Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature, drawing no line between what is spiritual and what is not.

Laozi

#2. Walk in nature. Take the time to be still. Practicing arts, arranging flowers, doing some drawing, working on a computer, brings a sense of stillness into your life.

Frederick Lenz

#3. My father is not around any more, so I cannot ask him to do my drawings for me. So, I had to find a different way. And I came up with the solution to use the printers then; I wasn't doing anything complicated. The nature of the printer is efficiency in itself and about working, being productive.

Wade Guyton

#4. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Frederick Douglass

#5. Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.

Francis Atterbury

#6. The steps must be second nature to me, so that the music seems to be drawing the steps out of me and I don't look as if I'm struggling to fit the steps to the music.

Suzanne Farrell

#7. In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#8. When I draw it feels very natural - intuitive. I don't think about it, I just do it. My visual vocabulary is self-selecting and second nature to me. Writing is harder for me. It's something I struggle with. Drawing always comes first.

Arthur Jones

#9. Madoc thought I was dirt under his shoe. Screw him.

Penelope Douglas

#10. To understand something is to be delivered of it.

Baruch Spinoza

#11. I've found from years of trial that the only way I can work is to make sketches in pencil from Nature, purely as reference material for future use in the studio.

E. J. Hughes

#12. The hour when he too would take part in the life of that world seemed drawing near and in secret he began to make ready for the great part which he felt awaited him the nature of which he only dimly apprehended.

James Joyce

#13. I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like the date on a tombstone.

Sylvia Plath

#14. TO FORM GROUPS, drawing visceral comfort and pride from familiar fellowship, and to defend the group enthusiastically against rival groups - these are among the absolute universals of human nature and hence of culture.

Edward O. Wilson

#15. Well, it's always been my nature to take chances My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances

Bob Dylan

#16. I had been doing MP3 players and handheld computers since 1990-1991, and so they sought me out because of my experience. And about 18 generations of iPod and three generations of iPhone later, I decided to leave Apple.

Tony Fadell

#17. I spend as much time as I can sketching from nature, Dartmoor contains such a rich variety of landscape, as many boulders, foaming rivers and twisted trees as my heart could ever desire ... When I look into a river, I feel I could spend a whole lifetime just painting that river.

Alan Lee

#18. Here we shall have to say simply that all government expenditures must eventually be paid out of the proceeds of taxation; that inflation itself is merely a form, and a particularly vicious form, of taxation.

Henry Hazlitt

#19. The first function of an art student is to observe, to study nature.

Kimon Nicolaides

#20. If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.

Edgar Allan Poe

#21. Security is the whore in me that never lets me fly

Heather Nova

#22. Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

Paul Cezanne

#23. Everyday nature is drawing a new picture just to keep herself alive and pretty.

Debasish Mridha

#24. For me, travelling and drawing the world, experiencing as much as possible first hand, has been very important. Making notes, drawing and writing on the move, became second nature.

Michael Foreman

#25. I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right.

Alan Lee

#26. Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing.

George Meredith

#27. Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next ...

David Abram

#28. All good and genuine draftsmen draw according to the picture inscribed in their minds, and not according to nature.

Charles Baudelaire

#29. Nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of their own inner consciousness and without drawing to any appreciable extent on their experience of the outer world.

James Jeans

#30. I believe that the sight is more important thing that the drawing; and i would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, that teach looking at nature that they may learn to draw.

Alain De Botton

#31. A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel.

Henry Rollins

#32. When you love something like reading - or drawing or music or nature - it surrounds you with a sense of connection to something great.

Anne Lamott

#33. My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.

Michael Ironside

#34. The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well; and then to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned.

Leonardo Da Vinci

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

Robert South