All Time Inspirational Drawing Quotes From Master Artist (2024)

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While drawing I discover what I really want to say.

If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery. It wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.

Art is a line around your thoughts.

While drawing I discover what I really want to say.

If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery. It wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.

Art is a line around your thoughts.

As I work at my drawings, day after day, what seemed unattainable before is now gradually becoming possible. Slowly, I’m learning to observe and measure. I don’t stand quite so helpless before nature any longer.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

As I work at my drawings, day after day, what seemed unattainable before is now gradually becoming possible. Slowly, I’m learning to observe and measure. I don’t stand quite so helpless before nature any longer.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

There is no must in art because art is free.

If you as a designer don’t believe in your design and don’t see it beyond the context of the film, instead of as a real creature in a real world then how can you expect the audience to believe it?

Every artist was first an amateur.

There is no must in art because art is free.

If you as a designer don’t believe in your design and don’t see it beyond the context of the film, instead of as a real creature in a real world then how can you expect the audience to believe it?

Every artist was first an amateur.

I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn’t know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colours flowers, so does art colour life.

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn’t know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colours flowers, so does art colour life.

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt

It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt

Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see – to see correctly – and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.

Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover, to your surprise, that you have rendered something in its true character.

Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see – to see correctly – and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.

Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover, to your surprise, that you have rendered something in its true character.

Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting…Drawing contains everything, except the hue.

I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting…Drawing contains everything, except the hue.

I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

When I paint, I never think of selling. People fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.

Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.

Drawing at its best is not what your eyes see but what our mind understands.

When I paint, I never think of selling. People fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.

Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.

Drawing at its best is not what your eyes see but what our mind understands.

Drawing is the artist’s most direct and spontaneous expression. A species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.

Drawing is a frame of mind, a loving embrace if you will.

Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.

Drawing is the artist’s most direct and spontaneous expression. A species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.

Drawing is a frame of mind, a loving embrace if you will.

Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.

I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

All these months I’ve been trying to find find a pattern. Trying not so much to draw hands as gestures. Not so much faces as the expressions of people.

I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

All these months I’ve been trying to find find a pattern. Trying not so much to draw hands as gestures. Not so much faces as the expressions of people.

To my mind a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful and pretty. There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is, without creating still more of them.

There is no must in art because art is free.

A true masterpiece does not tell everything.

To my mind a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful and pretty. There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is, without creating still more of them.

There is no must in art because art is free.

A true masterpiece does not tell everything.

An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always pain

Drawing is not what one sees but what one can make others see.

Drawing is putting a line (a)round an idea.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

If you can draw well, tracing won’t hurt; and if you can’t draw well, tracing won’t help.

The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.

I draw like other people bite their nails.

If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.

If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.

Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see – to see correctly – and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

You can’t do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I’m still learning how to see them; I’m still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I’ll get it right.

When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged. I love trying to render not just the object, but what it has been through.

I spend as much time as I can sketching from nature, Dartmoor contains such a rich variety of landscape, as many boulders, foaming rivers and twisted trees as my heart could ever desire. . . . When I look into a river, I feel I could spend a whole lifetime just painting that river.

In drawing, one must look for or suspect that there is more than is casually seen.

Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting…Drawing contains everything, except the hue.

All the visible world is only light on form.

Drawing is vision on paper.

I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.

I love the quality of pencil. It helps me to get to the core of a thing.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

If I could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.

Creativity takes courage.

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint

I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

The ability to draw depends on one’s ability to see the way an artist sees.

Art is a line around your thoughts.

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

It is important to express oneself…provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.

To be an artist is to believe in life.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.

Drawing is the only thing I’ve found in which I can lose myself completely. I love it. It started as something that relaxed me, but now it’s a struggle because I’m pushing myself. The day-to-day sketching is fraught.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see – to see correctly – and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

You can’t do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

If you can draw well, tracing won’t hurt; and if you can’t draw well, tracing won’t help.

The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.

I draw like other people bite their nails.

Drawing is not what one sees but what one can make others see.

Drawing is putting a line (a)round an idea.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always pain

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