Artist Quote by James A. Owen

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

— Irving Stone

Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things…

— Milan Kundera

The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.

— Andy Goldsworthy

Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the…

— Pablo Picasso

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

— John Berger

Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

— Henri Matisse

“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

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

Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk.

— Paul Klee

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

— Paul Klee

“Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it proudly.”

— Kia Carrington-Russell

“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