Chess Quote by Anatoly Karpov

Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.

— Paula Rego

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

— Jasper Johns

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What has reasoning to do with painting?

— William Blake

From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than the painter…

— Joshua Reynolds

The fundamental thing about sketching is that it isabout asking not telling

— Bill Buxton

The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

— Roy Lichtenstein

The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.

— David Alfaro Siqueiros

The guns are drawn and aint talking about a sketch

— Lil Wayne

Drawing is the root of everything.

— Vincent Van Gogh

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

— Philip Pearlstein