Analysis Quote by Paul Klee

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible…

— Chuck Jones

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 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

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

— Henri Matisse

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

— Irving Stone

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

— Walter J. Phillips

To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression,…

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.

— Andy Goldsworthy

Drawing is the most direct and personal kind of graphic expression. Unlike painting, it doesn't forgive. You put down your black line, and there…

— Tomi Ungerer

Drawing is still the bottom line.

— Robert Genn

Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our acquiescence to…

— Rico Lebrun