Drawing Quotes

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

If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.

You either get the point of Africa or you don’t. What draws me back year after year is that it’s like seeing the world with the lid off.

Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.

Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia’s most exciting new novelists.

I’ve been through a lot of ups and downs. I’ve been on both sides of it all, I guess. So there’s not one specific event or thought that I’m dealing with or drawing from necessarily.

I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

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

I don’t have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That’s more important to me than a laugh.

Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.