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“The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.”
Maya Angelou
“Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.”
Henri Matisse
“Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . . . Is this not form?”
Giacomo Puccini
“I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing-without the traditional interruption of academic training.”
Saul Steinberg
“The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one who makes the creative breakthrough”
Denise Shekerjian
“These high wild hills and rough uneven waysDraw out our miles and make them wearisome;But yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar,Making the hard way sweet and delectable.”
William Shakespeare
“Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.”
Charles R. Swindoll
“It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.”
Edgar Degas
“Believe it or not, I can actually draw.”
Jean Michel Basquiat
