Documents Quote by John French Sloan

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

— John Berger

Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge

— John Ruskin

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the…

— 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

Until we can insert a USB into our ear and download our thoughts, drawing remains the best way of getting visual information on to…

— Grayson Perry

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Be clear in your mind why learning to draw well is important. Drawing enables you to see in that special, epiphanous way that artists…

— Betty Edwards

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

— Walter J. Phillips

“I think drawing is a celebration and connection to my childhood. To draw in public is to open yourself to people with a kind…

— Bill McDonough

Drawing creates its own kind of private space. Coupled with certain interests that I want to speak to in my art, it's really kind…

— Jerry Pinkney