“Drawing is putting a line (a)round an idea.”
Henri Matisse
“When one draws lines, there is always a risk of being on the inside and wanting to be on the outside, or being on the outside and wanting to be on the inside.”
Elizabeth Alraune
“The English never draw a line without blurring it.”
Winston Churchill
“Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.”
Pablo Picasso
“I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing-without the traditional interruption of academic training.”
Saul Steinberg
“Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.”
William S. Burroughs
“A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.”
Paul Klee
