Art Quote by Brett Whiteley

Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge

— John Ruskin

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

— Irving Stone

Drawing is what you see of the world, truly see...And sometimes what you see is so deep in your head you're not even sure…

— Patricia Reilly Giff

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

— John Berger

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

— John French Sloan

“The Secret of Drawing consists of just two things: 1) Making lines on paper; and 2) Choosing where they go.”

— James A. Owen

“Instead of chasing the idea of truth, what we should be doing is embracing the medium of drawing and using it for a purpose…

— Peter Stanyer

“The drawing is also a reminder that there’s an artist within each of us, and we must encourage that artist to do the work,…

— Steven Pressfield

It is the bareness of drawing that I like. The act of drawing is what locates, suggests, discovers. At times it seems enough to…

— Philip Guston

Drawing is the honesty of the art.

— Salvador Dali

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