Drawing & Painting Quotes (903 Quotes)

My 68-year-old mother, Dora Simpson, got up on a ladder and painted one of these rooms. She and my sons - Issac, Terry, Nakia and Tony - helped with the cleanup and painting. I'm grateful to all the people who've helped us get started, especially Ray Parrish,

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

I saw the word 'Jesus' and the Holy Bible just sort of thrown in the painting. What that forces anybody to do because this display is in a government building, they think this government is advocating in favor of one religion over another.

I actively support art programs that teach kids the basics. Painting and drawing are terrific tools to build self-esteem and creativity in children. I'm also very committed to World Vision, an organization that reaches out to impoverished kids the world over. Anything that brings hope to children, I'm in favor of.

I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.

Mary Saunders said when the center opens they hope to provide a fun, positive place for children to spend time. There are several different things that we are going to offer, ... There will be a visual arts department and in that department there will be painting, sculpting, drawing, jewelry making, arts and crafts and several other activities.

You've got to give the Suns credit for their execution. I think we played even with them, although they had a lot of great hustle plays to gain the advantage. But this is just the first game. We've got to go back to the drawing board.

Mr. Phillips said he didn't want a conventional art museum. His favorite verb was 'to linger,' meaning to spend time and listen, to learn the vocabulary of the painting. This is something you don't want to mess with.

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

We decided that the prudent course of action at this time was to terminate the contract and bring the various players - industry, the acquisition and user communities, the Navy and Air Force - back to the drawing board.

We hope to sell a lot of them, and we will be selling them up until the 24th, ... Along with that, we're putting on a lamb and goat show out at Gibbs Ranch and that's where we're going to have our drawing.

Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear.

He figured there had to be a better way, and went to the drawing board and came up with a wrecker that's what they called them back then. He took a 1913 Cadillac touring car and cut the back out to make the first tow truck. He got a patent for it.

As a matter of fact, I didn't even have a drawing table or a light or anything because I never had a professional job in my life.

All you have to do is open up a little bit and then you'll be experiencing a part of that person's soul. It's just there -- in the presence of a beautiful painting, a creation, something created by someone else. This is insight into not who they are physically, but who they are on this other plane, so, what makes it magic, always, is to hear music performed live.

It's back to the drawing board and planning for the future.

Music is a way to express yourself. It's just another way to paint a picture or make a drawing or whatever.

Nude drawing and nude painting is where you learn the balance of forces and the balance of thrusts.

There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing.

I don't think you're going to have the majority of the board's approval, so whether it's fiscally feasible or not, it's politically DOA (dead on arrival) and you're going to have to go back to the drawing board and start over,

We're going to go back to the drawing board. Good movies are supposed to buck this trend. You hear how it's all about the product, but we have an excellent movie that people just aren't turning out for. It's something bigger.

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.

We are the painters of own self-portraits. Who we become will be determined by our attitudes, our actions and what we learn.

I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

I'm drawing, animating and writing better than I've ever been before, and I love my life with my wife Carol and the excitement of our new baby.

I couldn't wait to borrow his 'magic pencil' and try my own hand at drawing these comic-strip characters, ... It was a major discovery, and I was floating on air with excitement.

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

Both the painting and the lyric have so many characters and a mixture of the real and the made up. They share this love of the grotesque, the macabre, this kind of ghastly sense of humor about modern life,

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.

A painting... is just one image. It allows you to elaborate, dwell on that one picture, go off on it because no further images are forced upon you. But the motion picture is always changing. So what you have to do is create some kind of eye field, an abstract form in a literal sense that tries to emulate what the brain is perceiving, not what the eye is seeing.

There is no 'The End' to be written, neither can you, like an architect, engrave in stone the day the garden was finished a painter can frame his picture, a composer notate his coda, but a garden is always on the move.

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.

The team in North America, led by Mark Fields and supported by Anne Stevens, developed the plan for North America, drawing on their extensive global experience in Asia, Europe and The Americas. They have reenergized the Ford team to make it work, and they have the full support of the Ford Motor Company behind them.

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

Ah, to build, to build That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, are merely shadows cast by outward things on stone or canvas, having in themselves no separate existence. Architecture, existing in itself, and not in seeming a something it is not, surpasses them as substance shadow.

In addition, Margery Marks and a group of Haitian artists are working on the development of books for school-aged children to learn how to preserve the environment in Haiti. With the help of Dodard and his artwork, Marks hopes the gallery's first exhibition will be a successful one. Philippe Dodard is not only a painter, but a sculptor and interior designer, an architectural metal worker and very well educated, both culturally and artistically, ... I believe that he has something very, very special.

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.

It's back to the drawing board on defense. We have good enough athletes and good enough players to get it done. But they're going to be coached harder in the next three-and-a-half days.

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.

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.

We thought we would be able to come in here and be more representative of what we were as far as the game was concerned, but we took a step back today. And now we have to go to the drawing board and start over and try to dig ourselves out of a hole.

I didn't want a model in the room for three or four months. It would drive me crazy, drive them crazy. But also, they gain weight, they lose weight, their hair gets long, they cut it short, they're awake, they're asleep. And a painting becomes the mean average of all those conditions. I simply looked at photography as a way to jot down the information.

We may be able to tell how many stars are in the Milky Way we may be able to count the petals of every flower, and number the bones of every bird but unless faith leads us to a deeper understanding, a more reverent comprehension of the significance of the universe, God can be no more pleased with our knowledge than the painter is pleased with the fly which touches his picture with its feelers, and sips the varnish from the surface, and dies without dreaming of the meaning, thought, feeling, embodied in the colors.

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

One is never tired of painting, because you have to set down, not what you knew already, but what you have just discovered. There is a continual creation out of nothing going on.

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