#drawing

Look at how beautiful this ink is. Now do you understand why I needed clear water? Water is the brightness of the day and the whiteness of the paper. Black is the velvet of night and the satiny ink of the paintbrush. If you know how to make ink correctly, you will never again be afraid of nightmares." Hokusai (The Old Man Mad About Drawing) ↗

— Françoise Place

#hokusai #ink #the-old-man-about-drawing #white #beauty

We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing. ↗

— Helen Frankenthaler

#effective #every #inch #matter #paint

Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms. ↗

— Joseph McCabe

#creeds #dark #dark ages #drawings #like

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#determined #drawing #england #gutter #keep

I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#drawings #enjoyed #exist #i #i love

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#drawing #later #making #means #most

It became clear to me that I had to push it toward a more representational way of drawing. ↗

— Joe Sacco

#clear #drawing #had #i #me

I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore. ↗

— Gerald Scarfe

#computer #did #disney #drawings #film

I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments. ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#characters #cut #drawing #end #eventually

If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing. ↗

— Anne Seward

#drawing #educate #had #i #learn