All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

Not at all. You look as though magic has taken hold of you. It must be magic because I don’t know how you can draw like that. I can barely manage a stick figure.

There are no mistakes in Zentangle, so there is no need for an eraser. If you do not like the look of a stroke you have made, it then becomes only an opportunity to create...

Drawing things makes them seem more real and makes me feel more alive. It also makes me pin down and remember things – landscapes, season, weather, occasions, incidents, people – that would otherwise have melted...

All that you need in the way of technique for drawing is bound up in thetechnique of seeing – that is, of understanding, which after all is mainlydependent on feeling. If you attempt to see...

When I started to draw, most of my influences were from other painters and illustrators, so I was drawing landscape at second hand, really. The trees were Rackham trees, or trees that I had seen...

There are days when I’m completely depressed and able to do only one drawing.

Fundamentally, he was two years out of sync. He felt pressure to keep working on the job and drawing his Cabinet together. There was too much weighing against it.

But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then—all the combinations made—they are tired of the fictitious figures and begin to invent more natural, true figures.

I paint the spirit and soul of what I see.

I looked up from my paper and tried to remember her name. I was drawing a blank. That’s what happens when I doodle in invisible ink.

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

Evidently, a given object took no particular amount of time to draw; instead the artist took the time, or didn’t take it, at pleasure. And,similarly, things themselves possessed no fixed and intrinsic amount of interest;...

I wish I could draw you how I see you. I’d draw a boy with the most magnetic smile, and the kindest hands, and eyes that are gloomy, but can sometimes be bright. I’d draw...

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know – for comedians are the caricatures among us.

Toutes les erreurs de la critique commises à mon égard, à mes débuts, furent qu’elle ne vit pas qu’il ne fallait rien définir, rien comprendre, rien limiter, rien préciser, parce que tout ce qui est...

I’ve been actively engaged with mythic imagery ever since I picked up that Rackham book, but it really came into focus for me when I moved from London to the country. As I walked the...

(…) photography opened up quite a little Pandora’s box, kiddies. (…) Once we no longer had to depend on drawing and painting to record our existence — once they became an option — they mutated...

Instead of chasing the idea of truth, what we should be doing is embracing the medium of drawing and using it for a purpose that fulfils our needs as an artist or designer.

He had been a boy who liked to draw, according to my friend, so he became an architect. Children who drew,I learned, became architects; I had thought they became painters. My friend explained that it...

Brown paper represents the primal twilight of the first toil of creation, and with a bright-coloured chalk or two you can pick out points of fire in it, sparks of gold, and blood-red, and sea-green,...

This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.

Hazel blue anemone in a little SeaSide cave…drawing currents from the sea turquoise blue on sparkling waves. In ocean dreams, the poet waits by his grotto, passing days. Rhyming verse, his mind creates where his...

practice makes better

If I were to draw, I would apply myself only to studying the form of inanimate objects,” I said somewhat imperiously, because I wanted to change the subjects and also because a natural inclination does...

The drawing is already partly there – it’s in the paper. And the paper is talking before you do.

When Van Gogh was a young man in his early twenties, he was in London studying to be a clergyman. He had no thought of being an artist at all. he sat in his cheap...

Draw without mercy.

Create with the heart; build with the mind.

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.

Writing and drawing are very therapeutic, but they are also an excellent manifestation tool. I teach my clients to draw what they want, or to write a story about it to bring the manifestation forward...

I’ve got a flesh-colored tattoo. I drew it myself. You should see it sometime, if only you could see it (it’s invisible).

It was amazing what an hour with her sketchpad could do for her mood. She was sure that the lines she drew with her black marker were going to save her years of worry lines...

When you draw, you copy the world don’t you? You remake it on paper, but it isn’t the same. It’s yours. No one else could have created it just like that. When I make poems,...

I’ll use your chicken burrito as a crayon. I’ll draw what love looks like, if you promise not to eat it.

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

An art prodigy of the 21st century has yet to be crowned. Or have they?

I realized how subversive Ruth was then, not because she drew pictures of nude women that got misused by her peers, but because she was more talented than her teachers. She was the quietest kind...

Growing up, the only class I didn’t doodle in was Art class, because there I’d get to spend the whole time drawing.

We all have 10,000 bad drawings in us. The sooner we get them out the better.

There are enough ideas, images, symbols, and experiences in your head already to work with for a lifetime. It’s a little like having a car with an unpredictable battery, though. Sometimes you get in and...

There are many arts and sciences of which a miner should not be ignorant. First there is Philosophy, that he may discern the origin, cause, and nature of subterranean things; for then he will be...

I have been in love with painting ever since I became conscious of it at the age of six. I drew some pictures I thought fairly good when I was fifty, but really nothing I...

The visual arts will one day be king. The pop stars and celebrities soon to be forgotten.

This is a familiar syndrome. There is a stage with every drawing or painting when it looks banal and clumsy. It’s worth pushing through that, working through the cliché to find out what made it...

Regarding the creative: never assume you’re the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you’re masterful.

When I write…I am in the fond armsof a childhood friendupon whose colorful heart I can hang the charcoal drawingsof my woes.

Now relax, think positively and begin — the smile of success awaits you.

With lead he shaded love into the woman’s eyes.

I collected pictures and I drew pictures and I looked at the pictures by myself. And because no one else ever saw them, the pictures were perfect and true. They were alive.