A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
画
Drawing
I love very much to draw animals.
我非常喜欢画动物。
To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
要画画，你必须闭上眼睛唱歌。
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
生活是一门没有橡皮擦的绘画艺术。
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
艺术，就像道德一样，就是在某处画一条线。
Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.
成功或失败往往是在画板上决定的。
Do not add legs to the snake after you have finished drawing it.
画完蛇后，不要给它添腿。
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
我凭借自己对英语的熟练掌握，什么也没说。
Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?
谁会想到电话会把图画带回来呢?
I was the kid who was drawing on tables or removing the legs of furniture.
我是那个在桌子上画画或者搬家具腿的孩子。
There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing.
有时候，我非常沮丧，只能画一幅画。
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
绘画是一种具有永久性的表现手法。
Right now it seems like the girls are drawing more attention to country music.
现在看来，女孩子们对乡村音乐越来越感兴趣了。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.
我觉得有必要重新开始画画，我认为最好的方法就是开始画画，所以我报了一个生活绘画班。我很快就发现，人们创造了非常有趣的主题，我仍然感到惊讶，我从来没有发现过它。
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
他们应该像画金翅雀那样把画家的眼睛挖出来，这样他们才能唱得更好。
When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.
当我画画的时候，我只画人。表演显然是肖像画，写作也是。
But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.
但是当我画一幅画的时候，我会从一幅画开始画，但是我会在画中加入一些我非常确定我想要的东西，然后用印刷的点或彩纸在画上拼贴，在我真正投入之前。
But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.
但通常我从画开始，所以很多东西都是在画中完成的。但即便如此，我仍然允许并希望做出改变。
I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it first.
我不喜欢画正面朝右的字。如果我想在签售会上这么做，我必须先用铅笔。