Draftsman Quote by Charles Baudelaire

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible…

— Chuck Jones

What I love about drafts is the experimental nature of them. The draft is what you know about writing a poem running up against…

— Cornelius Eady

“Some drafts are always more precious than sent emails.”

— Saravana Kumar Murugan

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

— John French Sloan

“Drawing is the art of being able to leave an accurate record of the experience of what one isn't, of what one doesn't know.…

— Brett Whiteley

I always urged my contemporaries to look for interest and inspiration to the development and study of drawing, but they would not listen. They…

— Edgar Degas

“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

These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes,…

— Giorgio Vasari

The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.

— John Steinbeck

Those who are not conversant in works of art are often surprised at the high value set by connoisseurs on drawings which appear careless,…

— Joshua Reynolds

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 of the Spirit and color of the Senses.

— Henri Matisse