"I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living."

"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous."

"The artist has one function- to affirm and glorify life."

"Lord, let me always desire more than I think I can do."

"You can never do too much drawing."

"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."

"Art is a lie that tells the truth."

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain one once he grows up."

"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."

"Our world is but a canvas to the imagination."

"I dream my painting, then I paint my dream."

"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."

"The best of artists hath no thought to show, which the rough stone in its superfluous shell, doth not include; to break the marble spell, is all the hand that serves the brain can do."

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."

"Beautiful colors can be bought in the shops on the Riato, but good drawing can only be bought from the casket of the artist's talent with patient study and nights without sleep."

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

"The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization."

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."

"Give me a museum, and I'll fill it."

"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

"A portrait is a painting with something a little wrong with the mouth."

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

"Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend."

"I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes."

"To work is to pray."

"Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment."

"I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration."

"When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, thrue successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait."

"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

"There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it."

"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation? ' I say, 'Your salary.'"

"When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt."

"A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later."

"Even when you paint, you never stop drawing."

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

"All good and genuine draftsmen draw according to the picture inscribed in their minds, and not according to nature."

"Good drawing forms the 'bones' on which a strong painting hangs."

"The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities."

"A pencil is quiet, clean, odorless, inexpensive, and lightweight. I can slip it in my pocket and take it with me everywhere - my secret friend."

"Drawing and colour are not separate at all; in so far as you paint, you draw. The more the colour harmonizes, the more exact the drawing becomes."

"It is often said that Leonardo drew so well because he knew about things; it is truer to say that he knew about things because he drew so well."

"Drawing is risk. If risk is eliminated at any stage of the act it is no longer drawing."

"Learn to draw so effectively that it becomes second nature – almost another language. Carry a sketchbook at all times."

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

"Without good drawing, the foundation of a painting will collapse."

"Make a drawing, begin it again, trace it; begin it again and trace it again."

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

"Drawing is not the same as form; it is a way of seeing form." 

"My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can."

"Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly discover the world."

"I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen."

"A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away."

"Learning to draw, before you paint, is like learning to walk before you run."

"We should talk less and draw more. Personally I would like to renounce speech altogether, and like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say in sketches."

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

"Drawing is the simplest way of establishing a picture vocabulary because it is an instant, personal declaration of what is important and what is not."

"By drawing, man has extended his ability to see and comprehend what he sees."

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

"Draw everywhere and all the time. An artist is a sketchbook with a person attached."

"A sketch has charm because of its truth – not because it is unfinished."

"Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention."

"Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing." 

"Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad."

"A drawing should be a verdict on the model. Don't confuse a drawing with a map."

"Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue."

"Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness."

"As in the fourteen lines of a sonnet, a few strokes of the pencil can hold immensity."

"You can only learn to paint by drawing, for drawing is a way of reserving a place for color in advance."

"Drawing is one of the best ways to meditate, while staying connected to the world around us."

"Drawing not only develops hand-eye coordination, it teaches one to really observe, to see, as nothing else ever will."

"Before you are able to draw, you have to learn to see, and you learn to see by drawing."

"Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence."

"Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure."

"Draw, Antonio, draw – draw and don't waste time!"

"I never draw except with brush and paint..."

"Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines."

"Drawing keeps the eye fresh, the mind alive, and intuition nimble."

"Drawing is the skeleton of what you do and color is its flesh."

"Let the object draw the picture using the ink brush as a tool."

"Do you like to draw?"

"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."

"It is not bright colors but good drawing that makes figures beautiful."

"A good painter needs only three colours: black, white and red."

"Draw every day for at least half an hour. If you don't feel like it then draw until you do."

"We all have at least 100,000 bad drawings inside of us. The sooner we get them out and onto paper, the sooner we'll get to the good ones buried deep within."

"Drawing is the probity of art."

"There are no rules, only tools."

"Drawing is a truly universal language. So long as they can see, there isn’t a person in this world you cannot talk to if you can draw."

"We draw from our experiences so that you may experience our drawings."

"While painting may be the fruit, drawing is undoubtedly the root."

"Modern art is medium of expression which enables one to clearly express their inability to draw or paint."

"In your artwork, may you strive to simplify, not complicate."

"The photographer watches his subject dance while the draughtsman dances with his."

"For every adult who cannot draw, there was a child who could."

"Artists are the true magicians. Lyrics and melodies are their spells, a simple brush or pencil becomes a wand with which they create illusion."

"The more value a drawing has the more it should be worth."

"A well-rounded understanding of form and it’s relationship with light is essential for good drawing."

"Spray down the streets, we’re making another movie."

"Drawing from imagination is simply the ability to recall it, rearrange it and then draw it."

"Imagination is the ability to recall and rearrange."

"Art is a bird which has no wings, flying anyway."

"If you want to learn about something - draw it."

"Life is a huge piece of paper, blowing in the wind, which we are all constantly drawing on."

“There are doers and there are dreamers; then there are artists - the dreamers who do."

"A work of art is more flavorful when it’s well-done."

"When drawing or painting, don’t copy or imitate, rather, simply explain."

"A sketch is simply an explanation of something. Each stroke is a word, each bit of value, an accent. Keep it simple and clear. The whole idea is to get the thing communicated."

"A storyboard is a screenplay, or part of one, written in artwork rather than words."