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A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption. -- Thurber, James | Drawing Send to friend | View Books by Thurber, James at Amazon.com | Books about Drawing at Amazon.com I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10 % of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. -- Breathed, Berke | Drawing Send to friend | View Books by Breathed, Berke at Amazon.com | Books about Drawing at Amazon.com In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better. -- Klee, Paul | Drawing Send to friend | View Books by Klee, Paul at Amazon.com | Books about Drawing at Amazon.com Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt. -- Picasso, Pablo | Drawing Send to friend | View Books by Picasso, Pablo at Amazon.com | Books about Drawing at Amazon.com My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point. -- Thurber, James | Drawing Send to friend | View Books by Thurber, James at Amazon.com | Books about Drawing at Amazon.com There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney. -- Lichtenstein, Roy | Drawing Send to friend | View Books by Lichtenstein, Roy at Amazon.com | Books about Drawing at Amazon.com Quote: 1-6 of 6 Pages: 1 of 1 View all quotes