Artist Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

Drawing at its best is not what your eyes see but what our mind understands.

— Millard Sheets

Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than…

— Kimon Nicolaides

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

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

— Henri Matisse

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

— Edgar Degas

Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge

— John Ruskin

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

— Betty Goodwin

Drawing is your understanding of form.

— Edgar Degas

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

— David Hockney

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 form of probing. And the first generic impulse to draw derives from the human need to search, to plot points, to…

— John Berger