#raw

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#constitute #country #does #draw #gains

When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#beautiful #carpenter #chest #drawers #even

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood. ↗

— Billy Joel

#because #books #boxing #drawn #got

There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats. ↗

— Elton John

#draw #free #goats #going #line

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

In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore. ↗

— Virginia Johnson

#draw #had #known #lore #medicine

You see, anything I imagined, I could draw. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#could #draw #i #imagined #see

That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound. ↗

— Adam Jones

#compared #i #kind #like #raw

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#down #drawing #essence #form #good