"Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life."
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"You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work."
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"Count on big lines to express your ideas."
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"Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our strongest motive is life, humanity; and the stronger the motive back of the line the stronger, and therefore more beautiful, the line will be."
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"As we grow old, we become aware that death is drawing near; his shadow falls across our path; the realities of life seem less crude than of yore, they touch our senses less intimately, and they lose much of their poignancy."
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"I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers."
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"When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it all."
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"...their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity."
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"The music starts as being way separate from the lyrics, and I write - I have notebooks that I fill with drawings and just words, and stuff that I've written."
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"Surely there is something to be said for drawing a circle around our attention and remaining within that circle. But how large should this circle be?"
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"People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any."
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"Things are drawing towards the end now, unless I am mistaken. There is an unpleasant time just in front of you; but keep your heart up!"
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"Animation wasn't my love, but drawing was. I loved drawing, and when it came time to graduate from high school, I looked around and it was like, "Wow, I don't really want to study math. I don't really want to study science. I don't really want to study literature. Is there a place where I can go and draw cartoons?""
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"The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic. There's whoever's writing it and whoever's drawing it. And then there's whoever's reading it because they are creating the movement. They are creating the illusion of time passing."
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"We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the features of the person that we are and not of the person we should like to be."
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"Most of the supposed expressions of our feelings merely relieve us of them by drawing them out of us in an indistinct form that does not teach us to know them."
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"Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing."
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"And as we live our lives we discover - drawing toward us the thin threads attached to each - what has been lost. I closed my eyes and tried to bring to mind as many beautiful lost things as I could. Drawing them closer, holding on to them."
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"That's wrong," she declared. "Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it? But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down."
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"The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site."
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