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When I was a kid, I never felt that what I was drawing really represented me; it was just something I enjoyed. Jim Lee

Me Kid Drawing Something Never Felt Just Just Something Really Enjoyed

I like having pairs of characters to play off each other. I love drawing Batman, but he's more fun with Robin. Batman charges ahead, Robin jumps off the walls. It's fun showing that contrast. Jim Lee

It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime. Jim Woodring

Pantomime Drawing Tell More Takes Story

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

Me Way Drawing More Push Had Clear Toward Became Representational

When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz. Joe Simon

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I looked at Willie Nelson and Farm Aid as a role model; they do it every year, and it draws people together, and drawing people together where they realize they're not alone, to me, is strategic in healing. Joe Walsh

I'm very good at drawing fouls. Joel Embiid

Good Drawing Very

A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself. John Berger

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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work - related far more directly to the demands of communication. John Berger

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In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas's dancing figures become, at a certain point, darkly insistent, tangled and dusky. It may be around an elbow, a heel, an armpit, a calf muscle, the nape of a neck. John Berger

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Drawing must seek interest, not admiration. Because admiration wears quickly. John Howe

Drawing Must Admiration Wears Seek Because Quickly Interest

When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things. John Irving

It's usually drawing on personal experience. I don't think I could dig deep enough trying to get into somebody else's life. Like 'Far From Me' - I wrote it about this waitress that I was dating when I was fifteen or so, and she broke up with me. John Prine

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In 1970, I was turning 29 years old, just 4 years out of art school. I had created a black and white drawing style mascot portrait called 'Johnny.' I made a poster for it and sent it around the world to corporate art departments. John Van Hamersveld

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With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to serve as a graphic identity. After a number of sketches, I went into my own abstract vernacular of drawn lines and shapes to create the composition for the poster design. John Van Hamersveld

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The stage is bigger than life. There you are projecting to an audience. In television, you're drawing the camera in to you. And with TV, there isn't that immediate feedback from an audience. You do hours and hours of taping and never get that response. John Wesley Shipp

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As a child, play, drawing, and painting were important to me - they still are. Jonathan Pryce

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On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published. Jonathan Shapiro

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I'm a believer that you shouldn't really talk about the drawing until you're done with the drawing. Josh Trank

You Drawing About Talk Until Done Really Believer

I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I carried around in college when I was earnest about drawing. I need to have some idea of the shape of the novel, where its headed, so that I can proceed with confidence. But the truth is my characters start doing and saying things I don't expect. Julianna Baggott

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There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of. Julie Burchill

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