Artist Quote by John Berger

“We who draw do so not only to make something visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination.”

— John Berger

“But though this be so, yet since things present and our fleshly appetite are such near neighbours one to another; and again, because things…

— John Bunyan

“Art requires a delicate adjustment of the outer and inner worlds in such a way that, without changing their nature, they can be seen…

— Flannery O'Connor

“Art is the endeavour to sense the invisible rhythms that surround us, to discover their law, to turn chaos to order.”

— Ernst-Erik Pfannschmidt

“To see things thousands of miles away, things hidden behind walls and within rooms, things dangerous to come to, to draw closer, to see…

— James Thurber

One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may be in…

— Donald Barthelme

“We have reached a juncture in the path of our acquaintance, you and I, from whence we cannot continue as before, strolling along side…

— P.B. Ryan

“Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In the various arts, and above all in that of writing, the shortest distance between two points, even if close to each other, has…

— Jose Saramago

[Drawing should be] a journey of pleasure. Each step must present to the travellers' view objects that are eminently interesting, varied in their appearances,…

— John James Audubon

“Venture to a remote corner of a faraway land and, from the moment you get there, every person and every thing becomes an obstacle,…

— Tahir Shah

Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the…

— Henry James