Art Quote by Gunter Brus

“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

Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.

— Edgar Degas

A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily in any…

— John F. Carlson

The average artist, if he chooses, could render an exact drawing of what he sees. Artistic work not only allows but demands some deviation…

— Edgar Alwin Payne

Drawing is the honesty of art.

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without…

— Diego Rivera

Pure drawing is an abstraction.

— Paul Cezanne

“It is essential that a work of art should be self-consistent, that an artist should consciously or unconsciously draw a circle beyond which he…

— T.S. Eliot

Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.

— Marc Davis

Of all the creative acts performed by the artist, the most directly legible is drawing... it is the act that is most directly and…

— Rene Huyghe

When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience.…

— C. S. Lewis

Drawing is the honesty of the art.

— Salvador Dali