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All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.
The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.
Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.
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.
I thought I would draw or paint or be an architect. I was always drawing portraits. My mom put me in art classes in the summer.
I don't know where I got the idea for 'The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book'; I just told my brain to think of a book, and it did.
I knew I wasn't that good a writer, and all I could remember was that I could draw. I'm better at drawing than I am at writing.
Even if it flops, when you're sitting at the drawing table, you dream about seeing your work on the big screen, no matter what.
My drawing began as a way to count my blessings. To study, capture, catalog the things that, despite it all, make my life rich.
As a child, I was obsessed with drawing things, like Mickey and Donald. And houses. My mother was worried I'd become an artist.
Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.
Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines.
The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.
I'm very passionate about art, music, drawing, acting, so I'd like to have the chance to get the larger choice regarding acting.
Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.
I started drawing in first grade. Because the kid next to me was drawing, and I remember thinking: I want to be able to do that!
As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.
A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted.
There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.
Pampering my skin with moisturiser is very important, but so is drawing. I like sport, but I have to be really interested in it.
I dont think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill.
I live a very nice life. I have a wonderful time. But it's not lived drawing on a full level. I'm relaxed, cool, and enjoying it.
A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.
If you are drawing a blank, or are having a hard time drawing a certain thing, then it is because you have not studied it enough.
Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.
When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since.
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.
Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!
I am unable to comment on who may or may not be Banksy, but anyone described as 'good at drawing' doesn't sound like Banksy to me.
Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures.
As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.
If you don't use an image now you might have a place to put it in further down the line - and I have a lot of unfinished drawings.
I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill.
My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.
All of you here have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone.
Writing comics and drawing comics is a really very specific art form. It's a lot easier to get it wrong than it is to get it right.
I'm a super creative person and have always loved drawing and painting since I was super young, but makeup was a new avenue for me.
If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as you photograph.
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.
Blog-based businesses have lower cost structures and are more 'authentic,' and as a result are drawing larger shares of ad budgets.
Not even pencil or charcoal is needed. Drawing can also be done with a brush. But drawing is a must, if not, no painting can resist.
Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.
It is not the bee's touching on the flowers that gathers the honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out the sweet.
I use Pilot's document ink, but their drawing ink is OK, too. It's just that I don't like the impression that clings to the pen tip.
My history has been one of ups and downs. But thanks to God, I keep working, drawing from my life experiences songs that I can sing.
Bernard's [Leach] drawings delineated every little accent on the pot, every subtle curve and change of angle and proportion and all.
Every morning, I make myself a cappuccino with a drawing in the foam. I post them to Instagram with the hashtag #christiecappuccino.
All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.