Eleven Slides with artist quotes on the subject of drawing

1. It is only by drawing often,
drawing everything, drawing
incessantly, that one fine day
you discover to your surprise
that you have rendered
something in its true character
~ Camille Pissarro

2. Drawing is the honesty of art.
To draw does not mean simply
to reproduce contours: drawing
does not consist merely of line.
Drawing is also expression, the
inner form, the plane and
modelling
~ Ingres

3. What do drawings mean to
me? I really don't know. The
activity absorbs me. I forget
everything else in a way that
I don't think happens with
any other activity...
~ John Berger

4. Drawing is
deception
~ M C Escher

5. Drawing is putting a
line (a)round an idea.
~ Matisse

6. The very act of drawing an
object, however badly, swiftly
takes the drawer from a woolly
sense of what the object looks
like to a precise awareness of its
component parts and
particularities
~ Alain de Botton

7. The essence of
drawing is the line
exploring space
~ Andy Goldsworthy

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

9. There are no rules,
only tools
~ Glenn Vilppu
(animator)

10. My attitude towards
drawing is not necessarily
about drawing. It's about
making the best kind of
image I can make, it's about
talking as clearly as I can
~ Jim Dine

11. I prefer drawing to
talking. Drawing is
faster, and leaves
less room for lies
~ Le Corbusier
(architect)