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The teacher showed us how to see proportions, relationships, light and shadow, negative space, and space between space - something I never noticed before!…

— Daniel H. Pink

For a long time I wanted to draw, but I could never get the proportions right. My still life sketches were the artistic equivalent…

— Sloane Crosley

From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than the painter…

— Joshua Reynolds

Study your subject through half-closed eyes before starting to draw - you'll find that the lights and darks are exaggerated and easier to identify.

— Stan Smith

These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes,…

— Giorgio Vasari

All my work begins with drawings.

— Ellsworth Kelly

In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in…

— Leonardo da Vinci

All intervening steps, scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed work models, studies thoughts, conversations, are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist…

— Sol LeWitt

My first sketch..

— Bilal

To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this…

— Maria Montessori

Well, the beginning is actually quite easy, because I can still be quite free about the way I handle things - colours, shapes. And…

— Gerhard Richter

Those early sketches looked too cartoony; I really wanted to do detailed drawings - I was taking anatomy classes - but unfortunately I wasn't…

— Joe Shuster