Quotes About Drawing

I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy.

When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.

Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother & an instructor.

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.

I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw.

I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.

From reveries so airy, from the toilOf dropping buckets into empty wells,And growing old in drawing nothing up.

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.

Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.

Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness.

I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs.

Drawing is the honesty of art.

Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

Try drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination.

warm, spacious drawing room. The walls were lined with double-paned casement windows

En un muro blanco dibujas las alegorías del reposo, y es siempre una reina loca que yace bajo la luna sobre la triste hierba del viejo jardín.

My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.

The drawing of a 'Pipeline Wave' started with Billabong as a commission for their 2009 Pipeline Masters campaign. My 'Pipeline Wave' drawing later became the start of my 'Waterworks Collection' for gallery prints.

'The Next Wave' started as a drawing for a new silkscreen fine art print. I ended up doing the prints digitally because the water-based inks were better for the environment than the oil based inks. So, I learned about the Epson digital printers to get the image I wanted.

I must have been very young, but I have a clear memory of drawing on a cream brick wall... with wax crayons.

I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.

My favorite days were when I had a cold and could stay home from school and draw all day long.

For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.