348 Quotes About Drawing

...a paradox: architecture can only escape the flatness imposed by drawing through drawing.

We who draw do so not only to make something visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

See feel draw: One verb.

C'è molto di più di un semplice scatto fotografico nelle opere di Paolo Ventura. Il magnifico mondo di questo artista eclettico  è un palcoscenico su cui salgono pupazzi e figurine in cartoncino, il figlio Primo, la moglie Kim, il fratelloScatti d’autore | Sui set fotografici di Paolo VenturaMedium @shotofwhisky

She had been fair at drawing before the war. She’d drawn her mother dozens of times, as she sat reading or sewing. There had been so many things in those days that kept a person still, that required perfect concentration for hours on end. It had been easy to draw portraits.

Even in two-dimensional works you can convey the sense of touching a variety of surfaces by using implied texture. You can use line, value, color, pattern and contrast to create simulated textures on flat surfaces.

I believe that most of us, students and artists alike, ought to concern ourselves less with what we think is the right way to draw and more with letting our feelings flow through our hand. In this way, we stretch our dynamic nature. Our larger goal should be to draw in a way that expresses our vision.

Eventually you will get into the habit of enjoying line as a language all of its own.