Some sculptors make drawings, I make heads.

Most sculptors make the mistake", he said, "of thinking of eyes as form and they therefore make them as spherical surfaces. Eyes are not…

— Walter Russell

Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as…

— Elaine de Kooning

I am only an artist, my job is to make drawings not to make sense.

— William Kentridge

All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for…

— Ellsworth Kelly

Empty pockets make empty heads.

— William Carlos Williams

What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after…

— Benny Anderson

In 'Tom and Jerry,' there was hardly any dialogue at all. It was all action. It required a great many drawings to make.

— William Hanna

Whenever I am tired of making photographs of drawings, I make drawings of photographs.

— Vik Muniz

My mother sent me to art classes at the age of 11. I began to have kids around me say, 'Will you make drawings…

— Kehinde Wiley

Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.

— Gerald Scarfe

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

— John James Audubon

What do drawings mean to me? I really don't know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don't…

— John Berger

My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

— Odilon Redon

If you don't use an image now you might have a place to put it in further down the line - and I have…

— Raymond Pettibon

The drawings don't start with 'a beautiful mark'. It has to be a mark of something out there in the world. It doesn't have…

— William Kentridge