Famous sayings about Drawing:

 

 

"Paint as you see and be accurate in your drawing: the whole secret of your art is there." ~ William Bouguereau.

 

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.James Thurber

  

Drawing and color are not separate at all; in so far as you paint, you draw. The more color harmonizes, the more exact the drawing becomes. When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also." ~ Paul Cézanne.

"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 modeling. See what remains after that. Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting." ~ Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres.

 

"Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile, and it will do you a world of good." ~ Cennini.

 

"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.

 

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

 

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

 

"I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful ." ~ John Constable.

 

"Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it." ~ Robert Motherwell