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Quotes About Drawings

Something happened when I was in elementary school. A Disney artist named Bruce McIntyre retired, and he had done drawings for 'Pinocchio' and 'Snow White' that was just classic stuff. He moved to the town I grew up in, Carlsbad, and he became a part-time art teacher at our elementary school.
~ Robert Stromberg
I don't tend to cast roles in my head because I spend so much time with these characters and the drawings that they're complete in themselves, you know what I mean?
~ Bryan Lee O'Malley
Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.
~ Chuck Jones
Doing simple flip books, I used to get such a kick out of it, just drawings and nothing else.
~ Genndy Tartakovsky
Los niños reconstruyen los acontecimientos mediante juegos, dibujos y en sus interacciones diarias.
~ Bruce D. Perry
I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.
~ Marcel Marceau
It intrigued me that I had made no drawings of my father. The mashpia would notice that. But why had I made no drawings of my father?
~ Chaim Potok
The customs people were angered by my drawings. I told them I didn't make the drawings to cause trouble; I was an artist, and an artist draws what he sees and feels and thinks. But they tried to confiscate the drawings anyway and
~ Chaim Potok
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Where history concerns mainly personalities, the drawings become either black or white according to the interests of the writer.
~ Isaac Asimov
Where history concerns mainly personalities, the drawings become either black or white according to the interests of the writer. I find it all remarkably useless.
~ Isaac Asimov
Podemos apostar con total confianza que, en pocos años, los dibujos del señor G. se convertirán en archivos preciosos de la vida civilizada. Los curiosos buscarán sus obras tanto como las de los Debucourt, los Moreau, los Saint-Aubin, los Carle Vernet, los Lami, los Devéria, los Gavarni, y las de todos los artistas exquisitos que, pese a haber pintado solo lo familiar y lo bonito, a su manera no dejan de ser historiadores serios.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Le bonheur que je ressens lorsque je savoure le repos et la sérénité de cet endroit [le Spielweg, dans la Forêt-Noire, vallée du « Münstertal »], se retrouve dans les dessins que j'ai souhaité vous présenter dans ce livre.
~ Tomi Ungerer
I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly like we used to before: We send the drawings to an engineer and let him struggle with figuring out how to build it.
~ Neri Oxman
medium. I'm into the museum-quality marbles and the delicate line drawings, but the dolls were something that an ordinary person could get behind. My
~ Tayari Jones
I've been a comics fan since my first hit of those gateway drawings: Judy, Asterix, and the TV cartoon 'Spider-Man and his Amazing Friend' - which naturally led me to Spider-Man comics.
~ Naomi Alderman
Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.
~ Gerald Scarfe
Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.
~ Norman McLaren
I looked around the subway car. It was a little like the drawings I had seen of slave ships. Of course, they hadn't had newspapers on the slave ships, hadn't needed them yet; but, as concerned space (and also, perhaps, as concerned intention) the principle was exactly the same.
~ James Baldwin
Those early sketches looked too cartoony; I really wanted to do detailed drawings - I was taking anatomy classes - but unfortunately I wasn't able to do it because of the time element.
~ Joe Shuster
One of the first drawings I did in Paris - I wasn't thinking of doing drawings, but somehow or other, I kept drawing - I bought a hyacinth flower with a lot of leaves, just to make me feel like spring.
~ Ellsworth Kelly
Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in 'Ivan.' The drawings in the book look precisely like Stan.
~ K. A. Applegate
The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.
~ George Grosz
You know, the immortality of the soul, free will and all that -- it's all very amusing to talk about up to the age of twenty-two, but not after that. Then one ought to be giving one's mind to having fun without catching the pox, arranging one's life as comfortably as possible, having a few decent drawings on the wall, and above all writing well. That's the important thing: well-made sentences...and then a few metaphors. Yes, a few metaphors. They embellish a man's existence.
~ Theophile Gautier