Consequence Quote by William Kentridge

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

— Chuck Jones

“Instead of chasing the idea of truth, what we should be doing is embracing the medium of drawing and using it for a purpose…

— Peter Stanyer

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 a form of probing. And the first generic impulse to draw derives from the human need to search, to plot points, to…

— John Berger

Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge

— John Ruskin

The process of drawing is... the process of putting the visual intelligence into action, the very mechanics of visual thought. Unlike painting and sculpture...…

— Michael Ayrton

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

— John Berger

The construction of the human figure, its tremendous variety of balance, of size, of rhythm, all those things make the human form much more…

— Henry Moore

Drawing is your understanding of form.

— Edgar Degas

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

— Irving Stone

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

— Henri Matisse

A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues.

— John French Sloan