"It constantly remains a source of disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The difficulties are indeed numerous and great, and cannot be overcome at once. To make progress is a kind of miner’s work; it doesn’t advance as quickly as one would like, and as others also expect, but as one stands before such a task, the basic necessities are patience and faithfulness. In fact, I do not think much about the difficulties, because if one thought of them too much one would get stunned or disturbed."
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"I see drawings and pictures in the poorest huts, in the dirtiest corner. And my mind is drawn toward these things by an irresistible force."
"Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing."
"Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves."
"When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed."
"Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself."
"Your mental attitude gives your entire personality a drawing power that attracts the circumstances, things and people you think about most!"
"Now, you integration-minded Negroes are trying to force yourselves on your former slave master, trying to make him accept you in his drawing room; you want to hang out with his women rather than the women of your own kind."
"It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home."
"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."
"Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent--science, mathematics, energy, history, experience--and the more experience you have, the less likely are your experiments to end in drivel and disaster. The more you know, the more you can create."
"Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm."
"To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas."
"Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines."
"I've found from years of trial that the only way I can work is to make sketches in pencil from Nature, purely as reference material for future use in the studio."
"By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind."
"England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter."
"I Never Liked You. I think that's my best book. I think it works the best as a story, and I like the drawing. It works on both levels, for me at least."
"Almost every scene, I re-think as Im about to start drawing it, and at least half of the time Im changing dialogue or whatever, or adding scenes or different things."
"It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people."