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One of the most incredible moments I`ve ever had was sitting in Vincent`s trailer . . . I was showing him this first-edition book I have of the complete works of (Edgar Allan Poe), with really amazing illustrations. Vincent was going nuts over the drawings, and he started talking about The Tomb of Ligeia (1964). Then he closed the book and began to recite it to me in this beautiful voice, filling the room with huge sounds. Such passion! I looked in the book later, and it was verbatim. Word perfect. It was a great moment. I`ll never forget that.

- Johnny Depp

I`d been jumping on movies as the prop guy or drawing storyboards before I joined the art department on Stargate, Independence Day and Godzilla. When I was pitching the script for Underworld, I did 12 detailed production drawings, which the producers later told me made them feel more comfortable about going with a first- time director.

- Len Wiseman

One of the most incredible moments I`ve ever had was sitting in Vincent (Price)`s trailer... I was showing him this first-edition book I have of the complete works of Poe, with really amazing illustrations. Vincent was going nuts over the drawings, and he started talking about `The Tomb of Ligeia.` Then he closed the book and began to recite it to me in this beautiful voice, filling the room with huge sounds. Such passion! I looked in the book later, and it was verbatim. Word perfect. It was a great moment. I`ll never forget that.

- Johnny Depp

They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn`t seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.

- Eric Clapton

Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.

- Patti Smith

We did clay art. We did chalk drawings.

- Robert Horton

Thanks for all the wonderful paintings and drawings and writings. I am very honoured to have your support, and love you for the energy and the inspiring work and comments that you bring to the table. - to fans

- Tom Hardy

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I`m most competent at.

- Robyn Hitchcock

I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man`s destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.

- Marcel Marceau

I wrote none of these books. I made none of these films. Nor drew the drawings, nor opined at such length on death, sex and the human condition.

- Clive Barker

If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.

- Chuck Jones

Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.

- Chuck Jones

We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.

- Christo

We don`t sell technical drawings except when they are incorporated into a drawing or a collage.

- Christo

Therefore, when we arrive in a place and talk to new people about a new image, it is very hard for them to visualize it. That`s where the drawings are very important, because at least we can show a projection of what we believe it will look like.

- Christo

Whenever we have a new idea, we get so excited that we talk about it to everybody, we show the drawings to everybody, we have no secrets.

- Christo

And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea, and through the years and through the negotiations of getting the permit, you see that every detail is now clarified.

- Christo

But the drawings are not created only to be sold.

- Christo

Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.

- Cathy Guisewite

Picasso never copied African art, which is why this show does not match a specific African work with a Picasso. He took its point of view to express his own art. In his drawings we can see three sketched antelopes which come very close to the Bambara sculptures of antelopes. But then he creates a metamorphosis in which he creates something phenomenal and new.

- Marilyn Martin

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

- Norman McLaren

But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.

- Al Sinclair

I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

- Alberto Fiorillo

The war was a mirror; it reflected man`s every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.

- Alex Lopez Negrete

They`ve found a way to privately, or within a small family group, share expressions, or other images, drawings, and then gain access to some of the world`s great expressions and images and make them real, make them tangible.

- Alisha Marigoni

During the winter when the weather is too poor to work outside, I do use drawings and photographs, but I change my work so it is not just a time and place study.

- Alisha Valenzuela

My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.

- Alison Morano

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.

- Alison Morano

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

- Allan Treiman

Leonardo da Vinci, for example, was an expert on differentials and made thousands of drawings of gears in his lifetime, largely for military purposes.

- Alli Macko

Recreating the South Pointing Chariot is particularly challenging because none of the original technical drawings remain in existence.

- Alli Macko

The Tao of Natural Breathing by Dennis Lewis is filled with drawings, insights and guidance from an objective and subjective internal '˜organic' awareness. Dennis walks his talk and knows well the terrain. This approach towards understanding common denominators of breathing will guide many towards health and well being as well as help dissolve cross cultural barriers. We ARE one and breath IS life. Easily one of the top five books on breathing.

- Athena Starwoman

(A. Lowe`s is next in line of the big retailers slated to come to Hampton Cove. Randy Cunningham with the city planning department said officials with Lowe`s have already approached the board of adjustments to request the necessary permits to build there, across the street from Super Wal-Mart. In early June, a permit was issued to Ben Branum Contractors of Huntsville for grading and drainage work on a 30-acre site at that corner.) It is still in the planning stages, and we don`t have the drawings on it yet, ... It isn`t entirely solid yet, but that is what has been proposed.

- Aviya Kushner

We are getting across who the creatures are without covering their faces. And one of our students, Lisa Stevens, of Greensburg, made some beautiful drawings of ideas for the cloud men. That`s what this student company is about -- that there is this great collaboration of young people.

- Barnabe Rich