Artist Quote by Helmut Jahn

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be…

— Shahzia Sikander

For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything.

— Jim Dine

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

— David Hockney

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for…

— Peter Wright

Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm…

— Sigmar Polke

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

— Henri Matisse

When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.

— Tadao Ando

For me drawing is an attempt to understand what I feel about the world I live in.

— Brian Froud

For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.

— Alison Bechdel

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

— Marjane Satrapi

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

— Robert Crumb

Ideas rather than methods are central to they way I work, although drawing plays a central generative role in everything I do.

— Patricia Piccinini