Before Quote by Richard MacDonald

The work, I suppose, is made in the editing, whereby I make literally hundreds of drawings, and then a much smaller percentage of those…

— David Shrigley

The first ten thousand drawings are the hardest. Put another way, you have ten thousand bad drawings within and should expel them as quickly…

— Wallace Tripp

I do not claim to have perfected an art but to have commenced one, the limits of which it is not possible at present…

— Henry Fox Talbot

Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.

— Paula Rego

In my work I've never done preliminary drawing, because it's sometimes difficult to repeat something or to continue when the urgency's gone.

— Deanna Petherbridge

Illustration is commercial. It's work that we produce, and I think what you can do is you can draw from the pool of art,…

— Brian Stelfreeze

The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the illustration.

— Stephan Pastis

All my work begins with drawings.

— Ellsworth Kelly

The average artist, if he chooses, could render an exact drawing of what he sees. Artistic work not only allows but demands some deviation…

— Edgar Alwin Payne

The trick is to paint a picture that doesn't exist, and yet that fits perfectly into an artist's body of work.

— Wolfgang Beltracchi

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

Whether it is drawing or painting, skilled Artists usually deliver a faster result without jeopardizing the quality, simply because they don't have to waste…

— Igor Babailov