Art Quote by Arshile Gorky

I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that…

— LeRoy Neiman

I am biased towards the belief that every painter must be grounded in strong and faultless drawing skills, and until one has not experimented…

— Guity Novin

A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues.

— John French Sloan

“you draw" (the painter)”

— Sarah Dunant

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

Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to retain it.…

— Walter J. Phillips

Drawing is the honesty of art.

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

I am very bad at drawing. Seriously. I can draw shoes. That's about it.

— Christian Louboutin

Art is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making.

— Stephen Metcalf

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible…

— Chuck Jones

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

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as…

— Leonardo da Vinci