Top 43 Quotes About Drawing Lines
#1. The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of drawing lines.
Felix Frankfurter
#2. I close my eyes and can see men drawing lines in the dust. America pushes through the membrane of mist and smoke, and I'm a small boy again in Bogalusa.
Yusef Komunyakaa
#3. You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.
Shonda Rhimes
#4. 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
#5. If you regard evidence as a constraint and seek to free yourself, you sell yourself into the chains of your whims. For you cannot make a true map of a city by sitting in your bedroom with your eyes shut and drawing lines upon paper according to impulse.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#6. Stop the bullsh*t. Stop drawing lines in the sand like previous generations [have done].
Michael Skolnik
#7. In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.
Paul Klee
#8. I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.
Robyn Hitchcock
#9. A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.
Joan Miro
#10. I think there's a mystery to drawing - to the weight of the lines. The sweep of a line around a corner to create an effect that someone is moving.
Don Wright
#11. Skip meeting him? The butterflies, the pounding heart, the blushing? The part where you enter each other's magnetic fields for the first time, and it's like invisble lines of energy are drawing you together-
Laini Taylor
#13. I drew pictures rapidly and with few lines, because I had to write most of the pieces, too, and couldn't monkey long with the drawings. The divine urge was no higher than that.
James Thurber
#14. Your eye level is your reference point for drawing the perspective lines. All lines above your eye level will go down to the horizon vanishing point and all lines below your eye level will go up to the horizon vanishing point.
Robert A. Lovett
#15. A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
Jorge Luis Borges
#16. Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend they'll last forever.
Marlene Dumas
#18. Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines.
E. J. Hughes
#19. I don't need a hero, Wes." I say again, pressing our foreheads tight again, my thumbs both drawing soft lines along his jaw. "I just need you.
Ginger Scott
#20. Compare constantly, lines and angles ... Hold looking-glass before your model and your drawing. Take a second's glance only, and see if the impression be the same. If it be not, ask, 'What is the difference?
William Morris Hunt
#21. It was amazing what an hour with her sketchpad could do for her mood. She was sure that the lines she drew with her black marker were going to save her years of worry lines in the future.
Victoria Kahler
#22. Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
Robert Henri
#23. It came to me late, as an adult, the desire to draw and participate in the world of lines.
Henri Michaux
#24. If you don't use an image now you might have a place to put it in further down the line - and I have a lot of unfinished drawings.
Raymond Pettibon
#25. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
William Strunk Jr.
#26. Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.
Sol LeWitt
#27. There are instances where lines in my work are borrowed or stolen from sources, mainly from books, or they become my own versions. A lot of the writing is my own, too. But if someone were to take each drawing and trace it back to its source, most of them could be traced back to a book or a text.
Raymond Pettibon
#28. She was a large, disordered woman, like a child's drawing that didn't stay within the lines.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#30. It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up.
Muriel Spark
#31. With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to serve as a graphic identity. After a number of sketches, I went into my own abstract vernacular of drawn lines and shapes to create the composition for the poster design.
John Van Hamersveld
#32. Someone who is incapable of drawing, and cannot master line or colour perspective can always express themselves in some form of abstraction.
Hans Werner Henze
#33. Jeff shook his head, the lines between his brows drawing together. Ask yourself this, Connor - what is it that's got your manties in such a twist? I mean, really ... what is it about Megan you don't want to lose?
Mira Lyn Kelly
#35. Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature, drawing no line between what is spiritual and what is not.
Laozi
#36. She looked away from him, drawing hard on her Rothman's; when her mouth puckered into hard little lines around the cigarette, it looked like a cat's anus.
Robert Galbraith
#38. I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more.
David Hockney
#39. The Secret of Drawing consists of just two things: 1) Making lines on paper; and 2) Choosing where they go.
James A. Owen
#40. With pencil there is a tendency to be timid, either using very faint lines or erasing bad lines ... Line sketching tends to emphasize the structure of a drawing rather than the nuances of media..
Paul Laseau
#41. Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.
Irving Stone
#42. The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the condition of the Negro is ever the cause for further discrimination.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#43. Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk.
Paul Klee
