Quotes on Sketching

In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

Drawing takes time. A line has time in it

Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue

Drawing is the probity 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, the modeling. See what remains after that.

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.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.