Quotes About Drawing

I never really read comics. I bought them, and I would draw them.

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.

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.

When I was in the care system, I lived for skating and drawing. I lived on roller skates.

I drew against a hum in my head that was like happiness.

After tens of thousands of pages, they've circled back to Tolstoy and are now a good inch and a half into Anna Karenina. Dot resumes the story with no trace of self-consciousness or shame, no hint that art and life have enrolled in the same drawing class. And that, for Ray, is the greatest mercy fiction gives: proof that the worst the two of them have done to each other is just another tale worth reading together, at the end of the day.

One of Oppenheimer's students, the American theoretical physicist Philip Morrison, recalls that "when fission was discovered, within perhaps a week there was on the blackboard in Robert Oppenheimer's office a drawing—a very bad, an execrable drawing—of a bomb.

Survive today. Figure out crayon drawing of destiny later.

He had a wonderful way of drawing them out with his placid responses (Hm? And Yes, yes and I see), not so much an agent provocateur as an agent passif, if such a thing could be said t exist.

I was in a washroom drawing Mozart's head on the mirror in lipstick when a guy in cowboy boots came in and told me there was another way of drawing Mozart's head.

Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.

Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart and in spirit.

It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.

The first criticism I ever read was of my first book, H.M.S. 'Ulysses.' It got two whole pages to itself in a now defunct Scottish newspaper, with a drawing of the dust jacket wreathed in flames and the headline 'Burn this book.' I had paid the Royal Navy the greatest compliment of which I could conceive: this dolt thought it was an act of denigration.

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

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

There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

My mother was a very big inspiration. She loved fashion. I loved art in school, and I was very good at drawing. I could sit at the table forever and just dream up collections and draw.

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.

I have the standard cartoonist setup, which is one of those Cintiq tablets, and a laptop. If I'm mostly writing code, I'm on the laptop, and if I'm mostly drawing, I'm on the Cintiq.

When I was 15, we settled in Santa Monica, in a beige suburban ranch house. By then, my father, Ray, was an architect at Welton Becket's firm. He was handy with a pencil and pen. His figurative drawings were very good, and his talent was intimidating.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

The drawing is already partly there - it's in the paper. And the paper is talking before you do.