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"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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Oliver Reed Actor
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"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."

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Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Your mental attitude gives your entire personality a drawing power that attracts the circumstances, things and people you think about most!"

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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"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."

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James Thurber Cartoonist, Author
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"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."

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John Ruskin Art Critic, Writer
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"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."

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Julia Child Chef, Author, Television Personality
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"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."

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Pablo Picasso Painter, Sculptor
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"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."

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E. J. Hughes Artist
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"Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines."

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E. J. Hughes Artist
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"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."

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Chester Brown Cartoonist, Author
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"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."

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Chester Brown Cartoonist, Author
Drawing

"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."

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Edmund Burke Philosopher, Politician
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"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."

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