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.
But with period clothes, people know less so they accept the pretty drawing that I give them.
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic.
In the Chauvet Cave, there is a painting of a bison embracing the lower part of a naked female body. Why does Pablo Picasso, who had no knowledge of the Chauvet Cave, use exactly the same motif in his series of drawings of the Minotaur and the woman? Very, very strange.
Now we come to the passage. You can just see a little peep of the passage in Looking-glass House, if you leave the door of our drawing room wide open: and it's very like our passage as far as you can see, only you know it may be quite different on beyond.
Do not draw before you paint, it will restrict your brush.
There is nothing which an untrained mind shows itself more hopelessly incapable, than in drawing the proper general conclusions from its own experience. And even trained minds, when all their training is on a special subject, and does not extend to the general principles of induction, are only kept right when there are ready opportunities of verifying their inferences by facts.
When I was a barber, me being extreme was how I got popular: you name it, I was drawing it on someone's head.
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?
Drawing is the necessary beginning of everything [in Art], and not having it, one has nothing.
When I was in fourth grade I was drawing Jordans when my mama couldn't afford them.
I'd done a drawing of the model using only peripheral vision, looking at a spot on the wall to the right of where she sat. It wasn't really a drawing of her I produced; it was a drawing of the cloud of lights and darks she dissolved into when I focused on the spot. You could look at my drawing of this cloud and read it as a nude female figure, though a little translation was required.
I always urged my contemporaries to look for interest and inspiration to the development and study of drawing, but they would not listen. They thought the road to salvation lay by the way of colour.
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well; and then to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned.
My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.
Life can be a fearful thing. Everyone needs someone drawing alongside, saying “You can do it. Don’t quit. ” Everyone needs someone who believes in them. Everyone needs encouragement.
Of all the creative acts performed by the artist, the most directly legible is drawing. . . it is the act that is most directly and spontaneously governed by his nervous and muscular system.
I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.