Drawing Quote by Bill Jay

You can only learn to paint by drawing, for drawing is a way of reserving a place for color in advance.

— Andre Lhote

The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.

— John French Sloan

Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.

— Edgar Alwin Payne

To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw.

— Andrew Loomis

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

— Jasper Johns

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've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

— Brian Selznick

All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for…

— Ellsworth Kelly

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.

— Romare Bearden

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. I can't stress enough how important it is, if you are interested at…

— Frank Stella

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

— Cleo Moore