Drawing Quotes

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

~ Siegfried Sassoon

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

~ John James Audubon

Every morning, I make myself a cappuccino with a drawing in the foam. I post them to Instagram with the hashtag #christiecappuccino.

~ Christie Brinkley

It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes. The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one's own hand - that is what is necessary.

~ Maria Montessori

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

~ Oscar Niemeyer

After my schooling, I was not thrilled by the idea of treading the usual doctor-engineer line. I wanted to pursue something artistic, and I was good at drawing. The options before me were architecture, fashion, and interior designing.

~ Keerthy Suresh

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

~ Oscar Niemeyer

My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books.

~ Jude Deveraux

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

~ Ulysses S. Grant

I practiced drawing all the time and became very interested in it. If I was at a meeting that wasn't getting anywhere - like the one where Carl Rogers came to Caltech to discuss with us whether Caltech should develop a psychology department - I would draw the other people.

~ Richard P. Feynman

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

~ Salvador Dalí

My idea of Heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing.

~ Peter Falk

A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.

~ David Ogilvy

My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which now that I look back on some things, she would love it, she would say that's amazing, or if I'd make the ugliest drawing, she would hang it up. She was amazing.

~ David Blaine

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?

~ Georg C. Lichtenberg

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

~ Reinhold Niebuhr

I studied graphic design originally. I used to like drawing, and I was quite into technical drawing. I was always interested in the visual medium, but I thought I was going to be an architect or something like that, but it's quite a lonely job.

~ Asif Kapadia

As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design.

~ Craig Venter

Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design.

~ Sergio Aragonés

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

~ Robert Benchley

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

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

~ Le Corbusier

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

~ Henri Matisse

I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.

~ Steven Wright

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

~ Samuel Butler

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.

~ Neil Simon

I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.

~ Gary Oldman

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

~ John Berger