Inspirational Drawing Quotes That Will Motivate You!

Inspirational Drawing Quotes That Will Motivate You!

“Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting…Drawing contains everything, except the hue.” Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres drawings

“I draw like other people bite their nails.” Pablo Picasso

pablo picasso drawings

"I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing." Vincent van Gogh

vincent van gogh drawings

"All the visible world is only light on form." Andrew Loomis

Andrew Loomis drawing

"One must always draw, draw with the eyes when one cannot draw with a pencil." Balthus

balthus drawing

"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

Camille Pissarro drawings

"Drawing is vision on paper." Andrew Loomis

Andrew Loomis drawings

"I love the quality of pencil. It helps me to get to the core of a thing." Andrew Wyeth

Andrew Wyeth drawing

"Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation." Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson drawing

"Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye." Kimon Nicolaides

Kimon Nicolaides drawings

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

David Hockney drawing

"You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh." John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent drawing

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

Arshile Gorky drawing

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

Edgar Degas drawings

"Drawing is not what one sees but what one can make others see." Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas drawing

"Drawing is putting a line (a)round an idea." Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse drawing

“In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt." Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso drawing

"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad." Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali drawings

"In drawing, one must look for or suspect that there is more than is casually seen." George Bridgman

George Bridgman drawings

“If you can draw well, tracing won’t hurt; and if you can’t draw well, tracing won’t help.” Bradley Schmehl

Bradley Schmehl drawing

“The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.” John Sloan

John Sloan drawing

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