Drawing Quote by Marjane Satrapi

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

— Marjane Satrapi

The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.

— Marjane Satrapi

Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge

— John Ruskin

Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?

— Vincent Van Gogh

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 telling a story with pictures. 'Writing' is telling a story with words.

— Butch Hartman

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

— Walter J. Phillips

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 necessary beginning of everything [in Art], and not having it, one has nothing.

— Giorgio Vasari

Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was…

— Michael Kimmelman

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

— John Berger