Birth Quote by Ala Bashir

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

— Henri Matisse

The writing is hard, and the drawing is fun. It's very satisfying to see a drawing start to come together.

— Alison Bechdel

Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.

— Edgar Degas

Just draw 'cause you love it, you know, I think that's why you should be doing it. You should always be doing art for…

— Gerard Way

I'm not sure I would have ever started to draw, let alone write, if my childhood hadn't been so happy. It was a mixture…

— Tove Jansson

It’s about reaching that moment of pure ecstasy when a drawing just happens. Where every move you make with your hand and every thought…

— Jamie Hewlett

Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our acquiescence to…

— Rico Lebrun

Drawing is the necessary beginning of everything [in Art], and not having it, one has nothing.

— Giorgio Vasari

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

— Marjane Satrapi

To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this…

— Maria Montessori

Drawing at its best is not what your eyes see but what our mind understands.

— Millard Sheets

Drawing is the most direct and personal kind of graphic expression. Unlike painting, it doesn't forgive. You put down your black line, and there…

— Tomi Ungerer