Drawing Quotes

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I have drawn all my life, I don't know how to live without drawing. — Eduardo Chillida
I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I'd always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn't. — Roy Lichtenstein
Drawing is putting a line around an idea. — Henri Matisse
Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form. — Edgar Degas
Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves. — Robert Henri
Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention. — Robert Henri
You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work. — Robert Henri
Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing. — Robert Henri
Count on big lines to express your ideas. — Robert Henri
The straight line is ungodly. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser
The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the paper. I have… — Willem de Kooning
Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic. — Keith Haring
For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like as much as anything I… — Robert Motherwell
If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible. — Alberto Giacometti
The subject should be observed more for shape and color than for drawing... precise drawing is dry and hampers the impression of the whole, it… — Camille Pissarro
I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing. — Frank Auerbach
It came to me late, as an adult, the desire to draw and participate in the world of lines. — Henri Michaux
Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation. — Henri Matisse
It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious… — Samuel Johnson

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