Georges Seurat about drawings

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

Georges Seurat

Pablo Picasso on drawing and his drawings

I draw like a child. When I was a child I drew like Raphael. It took me my whole life to draw like a child.

Paul Cezanne

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

Paul Cezanne

Devid hockney

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

I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

David Hockney

Paul Klee

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

Paul Klee