Artist Quote by Leon Battista Alberti

Try to distill the character of your subject. Understand how he moves, thinks, acts. It's difficult to put into words. Consider each drawing as…

— Al Hirschfeld

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

— Edgar Degas

The biggest lesson I've learned about drawing is that it takes time. Which is really annoying.

— Sarah Cooper

I am very bad at drawing. Seriously. I can draw shoes. That's about it.

— Christian Louboutin

Ideas rather than methods are central to they way I work, although drawing plays a central generative role in everything I do.

— Patricia Piccinini

When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find done by…

— Cennino Cennini

“Some days drawing is a real struggle. Hopefully, using the exercises in this book, it will become easier and more and more relaxing. Until…

— Cliff Wright

Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp.

— Robert Crumb

Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it into your…

— Robert Beverly Hale

If you can't draw something, just draw it.

— Dieter Roth

All that you need in the way of technique for drawing is bound up in the technique of seeing - that is, of understanding,…

— Kimon Nicolaides

If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it [the rules of perspective] now, and do not have them…

— Andrew Loomis