I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. Votes: 6
Le CorbusierDrawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. Votes: 4
Henri MatisseDrawing at its best is not what your eyes see but what our mind understands. Votes: 4
Millard SheetsDrawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. Votes: 4
Salvador DaliDrawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly. Votes: 3
John HoweDrawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists. Votes: 3
Adrian McKintyDrawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience. Votes: 3
Walter J. PhillipsDrawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache. Votes: 3
David HockneyDrawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit. Votes: 3
Vincent Van GoghDrawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp. Votes: 3
Robert CrumbDrawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper. Votes: 3
Eduardo Souto de MouraDrawing is the necessary beginning of everything [in Art], and not having it, one has nothing. Votes: 3
Giorgio VasariDrawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing. Votes: 3
Robert HenriDrawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment. Votes: 3
Adam GopnikDrawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make. Votes: 3
David HockneyDrawing is something I do on the side, I like to see it be of use at times. Votes: 3
Coeur de pirateDrawing Is An Escape From All The Unecessary Things In Life That Get In The Way Of Being Free Votes: 3
Jamie HewlettDrawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint. Votes: 3
Arshile GorkyThe harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun. Votes: 2
Nikola TeslaI'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking. Votes: 2
Ben NicholsonAlways think of drawing, getting the forms realized, emphasizing the design. Votes: 0
John French SloanLife is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Votes: 0
Samuel ButlerI didnt grow up drawing runway models and deciding what they should wear. Votes: 0
Theophilus LondonThe night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself. Votes: 0
Patricia HighsmithA drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. Votes: 0
William Strunk, Jr.I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters. Votes: 0
Seth MacFarlaneWriting, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified. Votes: 0
Maxwell PerkinsPainting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school. Votes: 0
Dianna AgronSoldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows. Votes: 0
Siegfried SassoonI am very bad at drawing. Seriously. I can draw shoes. That's about it. Votes: 0
Christian LouboutinI've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing. Votes: 0
Pierre-Auguste RenoirThere are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing Votes: 0
Christian LacroixRight now it seems like the girls are drawing more attention to country music. Votes: 0
Miranda LambertYou have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue. Votes: 0
Carol Ann DuffyI've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited. Votes: 0
Mary QuantA good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself. Votes: 0
David Ogilvymusic, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonForm, color, composition, drawing, are auxiliaries, any one of which... can be dispensed with. Votes: 0
Harold Rosenberg...deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations Votes: 0
Jonathon PorrittArt is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making. Votes: 0
Stephen MetcalfThe only thing I ever wanted to be was a cartoonist. That's my Life. DRAWING. Votes: 0
Charles M. SchulzIn drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best. Votes: 0
Ellsworth KellyFew people know that I am also an artist; I truly enjoy sketching and drawing. Votes: 0
Sonakshi SinhaNone of us knew what this power plant looked like. We had no schematic drawing. Votes: 0
William ScrantonYou can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. Votes: 0
Shonda Rhimeswhat did wards matter when you could create your own reality just by drawing it? Votes: 0
Cassandra ClareThe test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is the brushwork of the right value and color which should produce the drawing. Votes: 0
Camille PissarroA mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it. Votes: 0
Walter J. PhillipsThe tongue, the Chinese say, is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood. Votes: 0
Anne SextonIs not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training? Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiMy drawing for women is really curvy. My drawings for men are actually quite angular. Votes: 0
Christian LouboutinI love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and slaughtering. Votes: 0
William BlakeWhen I retire I'm gonna bet on Wolves drawing every game. I'll be a multi-millionaire! Votes: 0
Paul InceThoughts are sending out that magnetic signal that is drawing the parallel back to you Votes: 0
Joe VitaleThe director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself. Votes: 0
Taylor HackfordStop the bullsh*t. Stop drawing lines in the sand like previous generations [have done]. Votes: 0
Michael SkolnikMy job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people. Votes: 0
Laurie AndersonGrowing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death. Votes: 0
Martha OstensoThe most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing. Votes: 0
AristotleArt isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability? Votes: 0
Edwin CatmullMake a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again. Votes: 0
Edgar DegasA drawing should be a verdict on the model. Don't confuse a drawing with a map. Votes: 0
Robert HenriWhen the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to? Votes: 0
Bob MonkhouseIf you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one. Votes: 0
Robert HenriThe writing for me is hard work and I always look forward to drawing the pictures. Votes: 0
Marc BrownWhen I was in fourth grade I was drawing Jordans when my mama couldn't afford them. Votes: 0
Kanye WestYou reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form. Votes: 0
Pierre BonnardIt is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing. Votes: 0
Deanna PetherbridgeI was 11 when I was first introduced to live drawing classes and going to art school. Votes: 0
Kehinde WileyRhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm. Votes: 0
Pablo PicassoDraw, as much and as often as you can. When drawing lies fallow, the skill diminishes. Votes: 0
Gene BlackIf the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you're drawing it. Votes: 0
Sergio AragonesBut after all, what have we to do with taverns? Real menace belongs to the drawing-room. Votes: 0
E. M. ForsterIt was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms. Votes: 0
Oscar NiemeyerI think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts. Votes: 0
Rachel WeiszShe was a large, disordered woman, like a child's drawing that didn't stay within the lines. Votes: 0
Jeffrey EugenidesWe cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time. Votes: 0
Adam SedgwickWe don't sell technical drawings except when they are incorporated into a drawing or a collage. Votes: 0
ChristoPrayer, as a means of drawing ever new strength from Christ, is concretely and urgently needed, Votes: 0
Pope Benedict XVIOriginality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist. Votes: 0
Georges SeuratI was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano. Votes: 0
Peter LawfordWriting is an abstract art of drawing pictures of the conscious and subconscious mind with words. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaPeople seem to sometimes have a difficulty drawing that line between the character and the person. Votes: 0
Clark DukeI usually use quick sketches that I accumulated from the figure drawing classes I once instructed. Votes: 0
Frank BrunoI actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort. Votes: 0
Daniel ClowesI am writing graffiti on your body. I am drawing the story of how hard we tried. Votes: 0
Ani DiFrancoFor me drawing is an attempt to understand what I feel about the world I live in. Votes: 0
Brian FroudI threw [Picasso's] drawing on the floor and in doing so, threw away about £50m. Votes: 0
Brian BlessedEven the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life. Votes: 0
SophoclesI have been drawing and creating visual works my entire life, as long as I can remember. Votes: 0
Brandon BoydMove forward. Keep drawing myself. I will look at the world in the eyes and run forward. Votes: 0
MinzyBut with period clothes, people know less so they accept the pretty drawing that I give them. Votes: 0
Julie HarrisWhen I'm doing a drawing, I'm personifying the place that is empty. A place that is unmarked. Votes: 0
Jim DenevanThey say they have noticed me drawing. I almost tell them right then and there. They noticed. Votes: 0
Laurie Halse AndersonI'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does. Votes: 0
Victoria BeckhamThe important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing. Votes: 0
John French SloanIt was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables. Votes: 0
Gil KaneTry drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination. Votes: 0
Kevin HenkesI'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us. Votes: 0
Hilary DuffVisual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls. Votes: 0
Frank DarabontIt wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career. Votes: 0
Scott McCloudI mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually. Votes: 0
David HockneyIt became clear to me that I had to push it toward a more representational way of drawing. Votes: 0
Joe SaccoWell, I love tattoos and have been drawing them on my binders in school since I was little. Votes: 0
Kimberly CaldwellOne of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then. Votes: 0
James PurefoyI think the best thing I learned from drawing comics is that it's a great exercise in concision. Votes: 0
Patrice LeconteHe who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter. Votes: 0
William BlakeA lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano. Votes: 0
Fiona ShawPrayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart, and in spirit. Votes: 0
Alexander WhyteFor me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something. Votes: 0
Marjane SatrapiMany of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape Votes: 0
Loren EiseleyBut it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near. Votes: 0
J. R. R. TolkienIf I could make a career out of drawing little girls hiding in corners, I would do really well. Votes: 0
Lynne Rae PerkinsMany of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape. Votes: 0
Loren EiseleyBy education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiI have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days. Votes: 0
Kirsty GallacherIf you can understand the humor in the drawing part you'll probably get the humor in the audio part. Votes: 0
Kid KoalaIf you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it. Votes: 0
Stan SmithI'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers. Votes: 0
Robyn HitchcockMy drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. Votes: 0
Antoine De Saint ExupéryMy drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. Votes: 0
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyYou know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real. Votes: 0
Zack SnyderObviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line. Votes: 0
Sol LeWittWhat's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another? Votes: 0
Marilyn MonroeWhen I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. Votes: 0
Jeanette WintersonWhen I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting. Votes: 0
Roma DowneyYou know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.' Votes: 0
Zack SnyderI see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay. Votes: 0
David HockneyIt was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms. Votes: 1 Oscar Niemeyer
Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing. Votes: 3 Jim Davis
I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad idea. Votes: 3 Paul Conrad
I've got two girls, and they both make beautiful drawings. One of them really has a gift for the way that she colors around certain lines. Votes: 3 Mark Grotjahn
How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident. Votes: 3 William Morris Hunt
Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia. Votes: 2 Barry McGee
I want to put the joy of creativity, of drawing every day, of having a go and being surprised at what one can achieve with just a pencil and an idea at the heart of my term as laureate. I want to make sure people have fun whilst addressing fundamental issues I care about passionately. Votes: 1 Chris Riddell
I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that. Votes: 3 Gail Carson Levine
Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity. Votes: 6 Quentin Blake
Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing. Votes: 1 Layne Staley
For 'Picture This,' I wanted it to be a drawing book that didn't have any instructions about drawing, beyond the real simple stuff you'd find like in a Bazooka bubblegum wrapper, or in 'Highlights' magazine. I just wanted it to be feelings about looking and seeing and pictures. Votes: 1 Lynda Barry
God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper. Votes: 3 Alvar Aalto
I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts. Votes: 5 Rachel Weisz
People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain status by asserting dominance over others. In hedonic societies, you gain status by drawing attention to yourself. Open source is a hedonic culture. Votes: 3 Eric S. Raymond
I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood. Votes: 5 Michael Crichton
As someone who writes and teaches YA fiction, I spend a lot of time trying to define its character and readership, and I don't think I'm alone - genres are all about boundary drawing, and the YA genre is, in a lot of ways, about carving out boundaries around adolescence, a space for teenagers to do teenage things. Votes: 1 Robin Wasserman
Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience. Votes: 1 Marc Davis
Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read. Votes: 5 Chris Ware
When you get a hankering to talk or complain about what you gave up for Lent, replace that hankering by speaking the word of God. For all the times you would have done the activity that you gave up for Lent, replace it by reading the word of God. Christians should always be drawing closer to God. Votes: 1 Monica Johnson
When you get a hankering to talk or complain about what you gave up for Lent, replace that hankering by speaking the word of God. For all the times you would have done the activity that you gave up for Lent, replace it by reading the word of God. Christians should always be drawing closer to God. Votes: 1 Monica Johnson
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? Votes: 5 Georg C. Lichtenberg
I was always drawing eyes, even as a child. Eyes fascinated me. Votes: 4 Margaret Keane
I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists. Votes: 1 Craig McCracken
I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand. Votes: 1 Dieter Rams
Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me. Votes: 1 Damien Hirst
Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root. Votes: 3 Gilbert K. Chesterton
You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. Votes: 3 Shonda Rhimes
Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls. Votes: 1 Frank Darabont
Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up. Votes: 3 Ann Richards
I became a fashion designer by accident. I loved to make portrait drawings when I was a teenager, and from that came the interest in what people were wearing and why they were wearing it. Votes: 1 Ann Demeulemeester
My drawing skills probably froze around when I was 18... Now I'm more interested in the story, how the drawings, the layout can help express the stories and communicate them. Votes: 3 Bjarke Ingels
We have set out on a quest for true humanity, and somewhere on the distant horizon we can see the glittering prize. Let us march forth with courage and determination, drawing strength from our common plight and our brotherhood [and sisterhood]. In time we shall be in a position to bestow upon South Africa the greatest gift possible--a more human face Votes: 3 Steven Biko
I've been drawing as long as I can remember. I think all children draw as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing. Votes: 1 Adam Hughes
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. Votes: 5 Gilbert K. Chesterton
When we distributed the paper and crayons, they were fighting over the blue crayon. Everyone wanted to start with the blue, and that was the water. One drawing shows the trees under water. I was really moved. Votes: 1 Connie Sellecca
Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life. Votes: 1 Neil Simon
I would like to say to children, 'Don't stop drawing. Don't tell yourself you can't draw.' Everyone can draw. If you make a mark on a page, you can draw. Votes: 1 Chris Riddell
I usually use quick sketches that I accumulated from the figure drawing classes I once instructed. Votes: 3 Frank Bruno
Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at. Votes: 4 Robyn Hitchcock
I became a fashion designer by accident. I loved to make portrait drawings when I was a teenager, and from that came the interest in what people were wearing and why they were wearing it. Votes: 2 Ann Demeulemeester
The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. Votes: 4 John James Audubon
I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake. Votes: 1 Peter Wright
I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited. Votes: 4 Mary Quant
I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I am trying to communicate through my writing. My images are like drawings in a science text book. Votes: 1 Devdutt Pattanaik
I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I am trying to communicate through my writing. My images are like drawings in a science text book. Votes: 1 Devdutt Pattanaik
And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such. Votes: 3 Andrew Wyeth
The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances. Votes: 1 Leonardo da Vinci
I'm amorous but out of reach / A still life drawing of a peach. Votes: 3 Fiona Apple