Dexterity Quote by Henri Matisse

Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a…

— Thomas Jefferson

Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience.

— Walter J. Phillips

Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.

— Tim Burton

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

— Henri Matisse

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

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

Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge

— John Ruskin

The best sort of activity is one that combines mental effort with sensuous delight. That's why I love drawing.

— Philip Pullman

What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Drawing is something I do on the side, I like to see it be of use at times.

— Coeur de pirate

“Drawing is a form of probing. And the first generic impulse to draw derives from the human need to search, to plot points, to…

— John Berger

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

— Brian Froud