348 Quotes About Drawing

A drawing is a translation. That is to say each mark on the paper is consciously realted, not only to the real or imagined "model", but also to every mark and space already set out on the paper. Thus a drawn or painted image is woven together by the energy (or the lassitude, wen the drawing is weak) of countless judgements [sic]. Every time a figuration is evoked in a drawing, everything about it has been mediated by consciousness, either intuitively or systematically.

Everything is happening according to the ‘drawing’ [past causes], You just have to ‘see’ them. Desires are ‘drawings’ too.

To spend time observing, without drawing, thinking, without drawing, or feeling, without drawing, is the misfortune of nonartists.

Page8 / FOREWORD by Philip Hofer: "His problem is space, not inspiration; time, not initiative.

It just feels like meeting him again was like seeing a blank paper ready to be sketched, a different idea to be drawn.

Elle avait un don, une aptitude particulière pour vous donner à voir ce qui vous avait échappé, alors que vos yeux s'étaient posés sur le même objet que les siens.

We all have an inner artist that has something to tell us if we allow it to come to the surface.

Jess drew the way some people drink whiskey. The peace would start at the top of his muddled brain and seep down through his tired and tensed-up body.

How could he explain it in a way Leslie would understand, how he yearned to reach out and capture the quivering life about him and how when he tried, it slipped past his fingertips, leaving a dry fossil upon the page?