Action Quote by Michael Ayrton

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 artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.

— Edgar Degas

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

— Walter J. Phillips

Painting dissolves the forms at its command, or tends to; it melts them into color. Drawing, on the other hand, goes about resolving forms,…

— Alexander Eliot

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the…

— John French Sloan

Drawing is the probity of art. To draw does not mean simply to reproduce contours; drawing does not consist merely of line: drawing is…

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

— John Berger

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

— Stephen Metcalf

“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

Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.

— Marc Davis

Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge

— John Ruskin