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Drawing Quotes

On sketching through hard days and building a world from scratch.

One quote describes drawing as a therapeutic way to work through things when writing feels impossible, and another mentions playing a drawing game with friends just to unwind. For more on the creative process, see our Art quotes.

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Drawing and visual arts was kinda my first passion going all the way back to when I was a kid. I always felt like it was what I was supposed to do - but in reality I don't know that...

Quotes by Aesop Rock

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I've been painting and drawing fish since I was very young. My mom found old pictures I did when I was around 6 or 7 of all these sharks and scuba diver looking back, a big ship, throwing a harpoon....

Quotes by Adrien Brody

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Most normal boys, as they're growing up, they - in order to become attractive, they might, you know, get good at sports or join a rock band or develop good social skills, and for some reason, I thought that drawing...

Quotes by Adrian Tomine

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Even though I'm usually not conscious of it, I think drawing has always served a sort of therapeutic purpose in my life. There's something about the process of translating the messy chaos of real life into a clean, simple drawing...

Quotes by Adrian Tomine

Always Quotes

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When I first started drawing the earliest incarnation of 'Optic Nerve,' I hadn't even been on a date; I hadn't had a romantic relationship of any kind yet, so in a way, I was almost writing science fiction.

Quotes by Adrian Tomine

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There's never been a moment where I sat down at my drawing board and thought, 'I'm a pro!'

Quotes by Adrian Tomine

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For me, after every game you look yourself in the mirror and ask 'what can i do better, what can i do to help this team?' Then you go back to the drawing board and you go back and you...

Quotes by Adam Thielen

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I'm not a sculptor; I'm a hard-edged model maker. You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from 'Star Wars' - especially parts from 'Star Wars' - I can...

Quotes by Adam Savage

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There was a long stint during my childhood after I gave up on being a pro football player - we're talking sixth grade here - that I strongly considered a future writing and drawing comic books. I have been making...

Quotes by Adam Ross

Art Quotes

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I've been drawing as long as I can remember. I think all children draw as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing.

Quotes by Adam Hughes

A pattern designer's line insists that the drawn and painted world has to keep rebuilding itself, while an animator's complaint about studios assuming a drawing can be endlessly changed hints at real production friction. Pair these with our Life quotes or browse what's Always true.