Abstract Quote by Louise Bourgeois

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my…

— Edvard Munch

Drawing is the only thing I've found in which I can lose myself completely. I love it. It started as something that relaxed me,…

— Peter Capaldi

Making art, I try to just gently persist, instead of having freak-outs where I'm like, Oh, my god, I'll never draw again. You are…

— Gary Panter

Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear, the same self-doubts . . . and I have only one source…

— Federico Fellini

I feel the calmest when I'm drawing or when I'm creating images. I love connecting the mind with the hand and producing something -…

— Jerry Pinkney

No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me…

— Claude Monet

I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.

— Henry Moore

It’s about reaching that moment of pure ecstasy when a drawing just happens. Where every move you make with your hand and every thought…

— Jamie Hewlett

My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.

— Sufjan Stevens

I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

— Zoey Deutch

It's very natural and simple to me, drawing, because I've drawn since I was a kid. It's just the most normal thing for me…

— Abbi Jacobson

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

— Robert Crumb