Artist Quote by Sarah Dunant

“You think you're the painter, but you're the canvas”

— John Green

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

I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that…

— LeRoy Neiman

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.

— John French Sloan

Painting is the subject of painting.

— Joseph Raffael

I am not a painter. I am the painting. Where the painter has got lost into the painting.

— OSHO

“I write with my paintbrush, and paint with my pen”

— Uvi Poznansky

“The drawing is also a reminder that there’s an artist within each of us, and we must encourage that artist to do the work,…

— Steven Pressfield

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

— Jasper Johns

“An artist is a performer on the canvas. A dancer with a paintbrush. A musician with the paint. A poet in each stroke.”

— Melissa Regas

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

— Arshile Gorky

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

— Julian Schnabel