Ability Quote by Betty Edwards

Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.

— David Hockney

“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

Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience.

— Walter J. Phillips

Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge

— John Ruskin

“Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer, and clearer still. The image is passing through you in a physiological way, into your brain,…

— Martin Gayford

Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing…

— Vik Muniz

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

— John Berger

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

— Henri Matisse

The process of drawing is... the process of putting the visual intelligence into action, the very mechanics of visual thought. Unlike painting and sculpture...…

— Michael Ayrton

Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Henri Matisse

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for…

— Peter Wright