Drawing Quote by Walter J. Phillips

Drawing is your understanding of form.

— Edgar Degas

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 not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.

— Edgar Degas

Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge

— John Ruskin

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

— Marjane Satrapi

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 an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a…

— Thomas Jefferson

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

— Henri Matisse

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

— John Berger

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 not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing…

— Vik Muniz

An individual's ability to draw is... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from verbal, analytic…

— Betty Edwards