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• As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.

  Prince Charles

  Art, Technology, Pace

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• An individual's ability to draw is... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from verbal, analytic processing to spatial, global processing.

  Betty Edwards

  Ordinary, Different, Information

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• To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the interior form, the plan, the model. Look what remains after that! The drawing is three fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over my door to the atelier, I would write: School of drawing, and I'm certain that I would create painters.

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  School, Mean, Writing

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• Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness.

  Michael Kimmelman

  Reading, Writing, School

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• Of all the creative acts performed by the artist, the most directly legible is drawing... it is the act that is most directly and spontaneously governed by his nervous and muscular system.

  Rene Huyghe

  Artist, Creative, Nervous

  René Huyghe (1962). “Art and the Spirit of Man”, London : Thames and Hudson

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• Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

  Arshile Gorky

  Art, Sketching, Paint

  Melvin P. Lader, Arshile Gorky, Gerald Peters Gallery (1990). “Arshile Gorky: three decades of drawings”

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• 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

  Looks, Awareness, Drawers

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• Drawing is still the bottom line.

  Robert Genn

  Lines, Bottom, Stills

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.28, Studio Beckett Publications

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• 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.

  Cennino Cennini

  Art, Sketching, Goes On

  c.1400 Il Libro dell' Arte ('The Craftsman's Handbook').

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• What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to be sure that nothing evaded my grasp of it... My objective is to test to what extent my hands already feel what my eyes see.

  Auguste Rodin

  Eye, Hands, Shapes

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• There are many ways to draw beautifully. It's important to let the drawing be an investigation and sometimes, in order to investigate, you need to go off the path.

  Jacob Collins

  Order, Important, Needs

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

  James Thurber

  Levels, Caption

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.

  Paul Klee

  Self, Finals, Analysis

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.183, Univ of California Press

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• Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.

  Maurice Sendak

  Mother, Children, Boys

  "Maurice Sendak and childhood — we ate it up, we loved it". www.washingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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• The process of drawing is... the process of putting the visual intelligence into action, the very mechanics of visual thought. Unlike painting and sculpture... the artist makes clear to himself and not to the spectator what he is doing. It is a soliloquy before it becomes communication.

  Michael Ayrton

  Communication, Artist, Sculpture

  Michael Ayrton (1962). “Drawing and Sculpture”

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• My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.

  Keith Haring

  Art, Long, People

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.105, Penguin

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• Drawing is an idea more than fact.

  Jack Shadbolt

  Ideas, Facts

  Jack Shadbolt (1968). “In search of form”

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• Until I saw my drawings replayed on the iPad, I'd never seen myself draw. Someone watching me would be concentrating on the exact moment, but I'd always be thinking a little bit ahead. That's especially so in a drawing where you are limiting yourself, a line drawing for example. When you are doing them you are very tense, because you have to reduce everything to such simple terms.

  David Hockney

  Simple, Thinking, Ipads

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• My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

  Odilon Redon

  Inspire, Doe, Ambiguous

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• Drawing is the sum of directions.

  Andre Lhote

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• I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Thinking, Able, Backbone

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• The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.

  John French Sloan

  Art, Important, Graduates

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• Drawing is the skeleton of what you do and color is its flesh.

  Nicolas Poussin

  Skeletons, Color, Flesh

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• A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues.

  John French Sloan

  Vitality, Faults, Virtue

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• My drawings are the result of my sculpture.

  Auguste Rodin

  Sculpture, Results

  Auguste Rodin (2005). “Auguste Rodin: Images of Desire, Erotic Watercolors and Cut-outs”, Schirmer/Mosel Verlag Gmbh

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