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Drawing Quotes by John Ruskin
- Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge
- The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as…
- I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing...
- There is a satisfactory and available power in every one to learn drawing if he wishes, just as nearly all persons have the power of…
- I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw.
- All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.
More Drawing Quotes
- I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot… — Margaret Atwood
- When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. — John James Audubon
- My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish. — John James Audubon
- The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. — John James Audubon
- One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil. — Balthus
- I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven. — Iain Banks
- I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words… — Scott Adams