I sometimes begin a drawing with no preconceived problem to solve, with only the desire to use pencil on paper... but as my eye takes in what is so p….
I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment..
You have to take in the whole picture, and ask, "What is it you want? What kind of world do you want?" So, I have drawings of different cities. Those….
Photography is not only drawing with light, though light is the indispensable agent of its being. It is modeling or sculpturing with light, to reprod….
Picasso and Matisse were the guys I wanted to get away from, and cubism is all still lifes. Their paintings are all closed drawings. And still life i….
I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to realize as sculpture... And I sometimes draw just for its own enjoymen….
I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I ….
The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in the position of those men who did those wonderful….
I draw like other people bite their nails..
The Secret of Drawing consists of just two things: 1) Making lines on paper; and 2) Choosing where they go..
Mechanical Notation ... I look upon it as one of the most important additions I have made to human knowledge. It has placed the construction of machi….
My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards..
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured..
Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm..
Skip meeting him? The butterflies, the pounding heart, the blushing? The part where you enter each other's magnetic fields for the first time, and it….
In times of stress drawing is a way of relieving tension..
Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwri….
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions..
I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist..
In the drawing room [of the Queen's palace] hung a Venus and Cupid by Michaelangelo, in which, instead of a bit of drapery, the painter has placed Cu….
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..