Quotes About Drawing Someone

#1. Rohini Mohan read. While she did, I sketched her. She writes with such beauty and violence, and it seemed like the best way to listen was to really watch her, in the way that only drawing someone lets me do.

Molly Crabapple

#2. 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

#3. The days available to say a kind word to someone this year are rapidly drawing to a close. Lord God, teach us to be kind.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#4. 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

#5. The Bible rarely tells me to fight against someone who doesn't believe what I believe, but it frequently tells me to fight against my sin and the disease in me that's drawing me away from Jesus.

Jefferson Bethke

#6. I love detail, like drawing what's on top of someone's coffee table. Maybe there's a little bowl of butterscotch candies on it, next to the four TV remotes.

Roz Chast

#7. Man was not then considered a good goldsmith unless he could draw well.

Giorgio Vasari

#8. drawing of a boy with brown hair and

Jennifer Weiner

#9. I don't spend as much time drawing as I do writing and reading. That's the really work-intensive part. And by the time I have enough material, it's often way past due time to put the comic up, and I'm already behind schedule, and I have to kind of rush it.

Kate Beaton

#10. The mind is certainly a very mysterious organ, I reflected, drawing my head in from the window, about which nothing whatever is known, though we depend upon it so completely.

Virginia Woolf

#11. Iko grunted in a most unladylike way, drawing everyone's gaze to her. I get stabbed and she gets to marry Kai. That just figures.

Marissa Meyer

#12. I am now of the opinion that children should first be taught the art of drawing before learning how to write.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. I wrapped my arms around his neck, drawing him closer. Oh God, it was so out of control, but in this really sweet, beautiful way. I never thought I'd be allowed to have that feeling. I thought it had been completely beaten out of me, but there it was, untouchable and clean.

Sarah Fine

#14. The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

Agnes Denes

#16. Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.

John Henry Newman

#17. I love painting still lifes because there's a feeling of musical, flowing experience. The drawing doesn't matter as much - what you're really after is a feeling of clarity and beauty.

Jacob Collins

#18. I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano.

Peter Lawford

#19. We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.

Adam Sedgwick

#20. My dad and I collaborate on the artwork. He does all of the design and layout. He uses my sketches and drawings or weird things to mix into it or put on the merch.

Sherri DuPree

#21. And the winner of the drawing that night was an eleven-year-old black girl named Dorothy Daffodil-7 Garland.

Kurt Vonnegut

#22. You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writing and drawing a character.

Rebecca Sugar

#23. Because fashion essentially is art, and as an artist and someone who is also a musician and an artist in regards to drawing and painting, anything I can do that expresses my feelings is something I'm really drawn to.

Ruby Rose

#24. I guess I've always been kind of obsessed with food. I always liked drawing food, and I always liked stories - I think I probably just read somewhere that stories are better if someone's eating in them. I don't know where that came from, but it really stuck, and I always try to put food in.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#25. Ski racing was drawing in time, I said to Sandro. I finally had someone listening who wanted to understand: the two things I loved were drawing and speed, and in skiing I had combined them. It was drawing in order to win.

Rachel Kushner

#26. Life can be a fearful thing. Everyone needs someone drawing alongside, saying "You can do it. Don't quit." Everyone needs someone who believes in them. Everyone needs encouragement.

Dave Earley

#27. 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

#28. I like to make sculpture because it makes my life social. When I make drawings, I work alone. When I work with sculpture I have someone I can work with.

Camille Henrot

#29. I know from doing portraits that you have to look at someone a really long time to see what they're covering up, to see their inside face, and when you do see it, and get it down, that's the thing that makes people freak out about how much a drawing looks like them.

Jandy Nelson

#30. He had been someone before. That person had been the result of a lifetime of choices, good and bad. And like it or not, he was drawing closer to that identity now. Not the freedom of infinite variety, but the tyranny of a decision made, a path walked, a life lived. What if he didn't like the view

Marcus Sakey

#31. When I begin praying Christ into someone's life, God often permits suffering in that person's life. If Satan's basic game plan is pride, seeking to draw us into his life of arrogance, then God's basic game plan is humility, drawing us into the life of his Son.

Paul E. Miller

#32. I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.

John Green

#33. When I retire I'm gonna bet on Wolves drawing every game. I'll be a multi-millionaire!

Paul Ince

#34. I keep thinking someone's gonna show up and say, 'There's been a big mistake. The guy next door is supposed to be drawing the cartoon. Here's your shovel.'

Gary Larson

#35. Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'

Salman Rushdie

#36. 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

#37. Artists draw for themselves, If someone draws for them, theyre not an artist. An artist is someone who makes their own music and albums. Artist think music is a drawing, and they draw theirs.

Jay Park

#38. When I was a barber, me being extreme was how I got popular: you name it, I was drawing it on someone's head.

Swizz Beatz

#39. It would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.

Malcolm Gladwell

#40. See all these buildings, Russell? All these buildings were once a drawing on a piece of paper, and before that they were an idea in someone's head. Any idea that you have, you can make manifest.

Russell Brand

#41. Why bother? I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood.

Poppy Z. Brite

#42. I don't remember her. But she feels special. There's this hole in my heart every time I draw her; you know, a sick sort of feeling. Like she's someone I lost.

C. Robert Cargill

#43. I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

R.L. Stine

#44. Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.

David Hockney

#45. A mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it.

Walter J. Phillips

#46. There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing water from a well, some Big Rock Candy Mountain where life was effortless and rich and unrestricted and full of adventure and action, where something could be had for nothing.

Wallace Stegner

#47. Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.

Bent Larsen

#48. I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.

Vincent Van Gogh

#49. Prayer, as a means of drawing ever new strength from Christ, is concretely and urgently needed,

Pope Benedict XVI

#50. I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

Alberto Giacometti

#51. The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design.

Michael Hansmeyer

#52. Rhythm is a perception of time ... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.

Pablo Picasso

#53. There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that it will eventually have text.

Raymond Pettibon

#54. The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

Richard P. Feynman

#55. Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that the peculiar quality of this secondary world (if not all the details) are derived from Reality, or are flowing into it.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#56. I've had my own personal stalker. I would get nude drawings of my body with a knife and a message saying 'I'm watching you' and 'I'm going to get you.'

Erin Gray

#57. That is a Medieval way of drawing history, in which they do not respect the law and want the rest of the world to respect the law. That's not possible.

Emir Kusturica

#58. I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around the drawing aspect and construction my whole life.

Kym Whitley

#59. I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.

Henry Moore

#60. Andy [Warhol] was on the scene, but he wasn't an artist at first; he was more an illustrator. He was always surrounded by about ten people who worshipped him. He'd go to a party and they would all come along. But he was drawing shoes and that sort of thing.

Claes Oldenburg

#61. You are the creator. Get out that old box of paints and brushes and start drawing love into your life.

Kate McGahan

#62. I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase.

Diane Lane

#63. I never draw except with brush and paint ...

Claude Monet

#64. When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed.

Oliver Reed

#65. For me,the Bild-Dichtung [image-poem] is the ideal form,because the drawing process is constantly being interrupted or contrasted by the writing. And since I always have something to say when I am writing,the effort has a balancing effect. Drawing and writing are wonderful complements.

Gunter Brus

#66. This is what all the work of grace aims at - an ever deeper knowledge of God, and an ever closer fellowship with him. Grace is God drawing us sinners closer and closer to himself.

J.I. Packer

#67. See what fun it is to do what Simon Says? Simon teased,
drawing closer toward me.

Amanda Howells

#68. I'm just trying to blur this very clear line we've drawn and are drawing over and over and over again between communities. Saying those are queer films and those are films. I would love for that line to disappear. For that frontier to be abolished once and for all.

Xavier Dolan

#69. As Oscar Wilde once wrote, "Morality, like art, means drawing a line somewhere." The question is: where is the line?

Dan Ariely

#70. If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.

Edward Gorey

#71. Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy is drawing near.

Frederick Buechner

#72. I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.

David Byrne

#73. With drawing, I am acutely aware of creating something on a sheet of paper. It is a sensual act, which you cannot say about the act of writing. In fact, I often turn to drawing to recover from the writing.

Gunter Grass

#74. When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.

John Fahey

#75. In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

Edmund Burke

#76. Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#77. Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

John W. Gardner

#78. Planning, evaluation, reasoning and establishing prioritites are all more important than brilliance - either behind the wheel or at the drawing board.

Carroll Smith

#79. Low comedies are written for the drawing-room, the kitchen and the stable, and if you cut out the kitchen and the stable the drawing-room can't support the play by itself.

Mark Twain

#80. I like drawing. I like to spend the day drawing, the process is important for me. Drawing is a just a pleasure and it's nice to keep it going.

Tomm Moore

#81. I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it first.

Stephan Pastis

#82. Some drawings are better than others ... Some are utterly spoiled ... I keep them all. I find a use sometimes even for the worst drawing ... But their chief use is to mortify one's conceit, to show how thoroughly incompetent it is possible to be, and to shame one into better ways.

Walter J. Phillips