Able Quote by David Hockney

An individual's ability to draw is... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from verbal, analytic…

— Betty Edwards

Drawing Is An Escape From All The Unecessary Things In Life That Get In The Way Of Being Free

— Jamie Hewlett

Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge

— John Ruskin

Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our acquiescence to…

— Rico Lebrun

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

— Chuck Jones

If you can't draw something, just draw it.

— Dieter Roth

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

— John Berger

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

— Henri Matisse

People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.

— Jonathan Miller

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

— Edgar Degas

You need to live life to be able to have something to draw from.

— Sissy Spacek

Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp.

— Robert Crumb