"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."
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"The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up."
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"He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter."
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"I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human."
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"A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish."
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"A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted."
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"To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing."
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"Disneyland is a work of love...Drawing up plans and dreaming of what I could do, everything. It was just something I kind of kept playing around with."
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"I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing."
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"God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him."
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"The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art."
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"The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances."
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"Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing."
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"In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt."
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"I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings."
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"Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room."
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"I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting."
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"Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper."
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"To draw you must close your eyes and sing."
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"Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people like an electric shock when they first meet, but something quieter and gentler, like two tiny lights traveling in tandem through a vast darkness and drawing imperceptibly closer to each other as they go. As our meetings grew more frequent, I felt not so much that I had met someone new as that I had chanced upon a dear old friend."
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