Art Quote by John French Sloan

Drawing is the probity of art. To draw does not mean simply to reproduce contours; drawing does not consist merely of line: drawing is…

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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 not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing…

— Vik Muniz

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

— Walter J. Phillips

Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge

— John Ruskin

Think of drawing as a way of talking about the things that interest you. Think of those wonderful documents, drawings made on scraps of…

— John French Sloan

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 the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

— Marjane Satrapi

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

Drawing is the simplest way of establishing a picture vocabulary because it is an instant, personal declaration of what is important and what is…

— Betty Goodwin

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

— Thomas Jefferson