Nature Quote by Alain de Botton

I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to…

— John Ruskin

“I believe that most of us, students and artists alike, ought to concern ourselves less with what we think is the right way to…

— Bert Dodson

I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing...

— John Ruskin

“Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you see what you’re looking at more clearly. Did you know that?”

— David Almond

“Drawing things makes them seem more real and makes me feel more alive. It also makes me pin down and remember things - landscapes,…

— David Gentleman

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

— Millard Sheets

Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look

— David Hockney

“If I were to draw, I would apply myself only to studying the form of inanimate objects," I said somewhat imperiously, because I wanted…

— Italo Calvino

Drawing is of the Spirit and color of the Senses.

— Henri Matisse

“Drawing is a form of probing. And the first generic impulse to draw derives from the human need to search, to plot points, to…

— John Berger

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be…

— Shahzia Sikander

Be clear in your mind why learning to draw well is important. Drawing enables you to see in that special, epiphanous way that artists…

— Betty Edwards