Ability Quote by Marc Davis

Of all the creative acts performed by the artist, the most directly legible is drawing... it is the act that is most directly and…

— Rene Huyghe

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

Art is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making.

— Stephen Metcalf

Drawing or painting allows the artist to know himself as a whole person.

— Joseph C Zinker

An artist is someone who paints and is creative, but they are not necessarily using their brains too much. And it's the same in…

— Keeley Hazell

Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of the period…

— Gustave Courbet

The process of drawing is... the process of putting the visual intelligence into action, the very mechanics of visual thought. Unlike painting and sculpture...…

— Michael Ayrton

Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.

— Tom Stoppard

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

— Walter J. Phillips

An artist makes something to be physically experienced by another person. It's a raw, freely chosen, interpersonal relationship between the maker and the viewer,…

— Philip Taaffe

“An artist is a performer on the canvas. A dancer with a paintbrush. A musician with the paint. A poet in each stroke.”

— Melissa Regas

A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented…

— John Berger