"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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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