Art Quote by Michael Walterich

“His drawings were not originals then, only copies. He must have been doing them as a sort of retirement hobby, he was an incurable…

— Margaret Atwood

Somehow I felt that if Fox Talbot had had more time and more drawing talent, he would have filled in the interval between his…

— John Pfahl

“Everything that flickered could be made permanent. That was what drew him to photography, what made every painstaking step worth it: the permanence of…

— Katie Roiphe

The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry, where automatic…

— Andre Breton

“I can't help thinking of Jackson Pollock, who poured, splattered and lashed the canvass with strings of paint. His process was about snaring not…

— Jocelyn Lieu

From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than the painter…

— Joshua Reynolds

“I drew a portrait of an invisible man on a nice canvas, because that's all you see. Oh, and I used a nice frame.…

— Jarod Kintz

David Shrigley is somewhere between stand-up comedy and cave paintings. He does these brilliant esoteric, simple drawings - you might even say bad drawings.…

— Noah Reid

It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now…

— Charles de Lint

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

“I had not then acquired the technique that I flatter myself now enables me to deal competently with the works of modern artist. If…

— W. Somerset Maugham

All the old bogeys of 'dignified subject-matter,' of 'balanced compositions,' of 'correct drawing' were laid to rest. The artist was responsible to no one…

— Ernst Gombrich