Quotes of Sketch - somelinesforyou

“ Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. ”

- Robert Benchley

“ There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ How to make God laugh. Tell him your future plans. ”

- Woody Allen

“ Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling. ”

- Oliver Cromwell

“ We've got to go back to the drawing board and get some home cooking. ”

- Vince Carter

“ Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream. ”

- Vincent van Gogh

“ The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. ”

- Cicero

“ A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind. ”

- Leonardo da Vinci

“ If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ Pictures help you to form the mental mould… ”

- Robert Collier

“ Drawing is putting a line round an idea. ”

- Henri Matisse

“ Rais'd of themselves, their genuine charms they boastAnd those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ The official designs of the Government, especially its designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors of national taste. ”

- W. B. Yeats

“ Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it — ink it! ”

- Unknown

“ I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself. ”

- Colin Farrell

“ Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body. ”

- Gianni Versace

“ In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ”

- Unknown

“ He was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met. ”

- William Faulkner

“ Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation. ”

- Henri Cartier Bresson

“ I have an existential map; it has "you are here" written all over it. ”

- Steven Wright

“ The most praiseworthy form of painting is one that most resembles what it imitates. ”

- Leonardo da Vinci

“ I have sworn to die painting. ”

- Paul Cezanne

“ Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized. ”

- Adolf Hitler

“ The art of the word is painting + architecture + music. ”

- Yevgeny Zamyatin

“ Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context — a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan. ”

- Eliel Saarinen
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