12 Metaphors for drawings

This is what the Italians of the Renaissance meant when, through the mouths of Ghiberti, Buonarroti, and Cellini, they proclaimed that the perfect drawing of a fine nude, "un bel corpo ignudo," was the final test of mastery in plastic art.

Drawings by the old masters and small pictures were the next objects of the chase.

But few partners had ever sought her in the ballroom; her only drawings which anyone ever asked to see were half-a-dozen of the Bayfield pavement, executed for Narcissus' monograph; and her harp she played in her own room.

The exquisite double-page drawings by Charles Dana Gibson are a feature of this series.

My drawings are universally admired, especially the shells and flowers, which are beautiful, certainly: besides this, I have a decided taste in all kinds of fancy ornaments.

Character-drawing is the presentment of human nature in its commonly-recognized, understood, and accepted aspects; psychology is, as it were, the exploration of character, the bringing of hitherto unsurveyed tracts within the circle of our knowledge and comprehension.

The drawings in the cases in the first long corridor are worth close studycovering as they do the whole range of great Italian art: from, say, Uccello to Carlo Dolci.

We cannot pretend by our supplications or prayers to turn or change thee, for thou art the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever; but the coming into thy presence, the drawing near unto thee, is the only means to be changed ourselves, to become like thee in holiness and purity, to be followers of thee as thy dear children.

Drawing, therefore, was a great aid to me in passing the day.

"These drawings are the work of a trained draughtsman, and the writing is that of a draughtsman.

Drawing was his favourite amusement; and this disappointment, where he expected success, broke down his already depressed heart.

But I think you said that the drawings were in a drawer in your own roomnot the outer office, where the draughtsmen are, I presume?"

12 Metaphors for  drawings