“I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views and they must all be equally good.”

The difference between a painting and sculpture is the difference between a shadow and the thing which casts it.

A painting is merely the image of a tree, a man, or any other object reflected in a fountain.

Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.

Let everyone witness how many different cards fortune has up her sleeve when she wants to ruin a man.

All works of nature created by God in heaven and on earth are works of sculpture.

Cats of good breed hunt better fat than lean.

I didn’t always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the ‘L’ out of me.

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

Drawing is the most inalienable medium. It is private; it practically doesn’t have an audience in mind, just the artist’s expression.

When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late ’30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.

I’m just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that’s my way of thinking.

Be clear in your mind why learning to draw well is important. Drawing enables you to see in that special, epiphanous way that artists see, no matter what style you use to express your special insight.

Photography is not only drawing with light, though light is the indispensable agent of its being. It is modeling or sculpturing with light, to reproduce the plastic form of natural objects. It is painting with light.

Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.