Famous Art Quotes: Drawing

“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. “--Salvador Dali. Strange words, coming from the art world’s most eccentric artist Salvador Dali. Yet at the core of Dali’s vast body of work (which include theater, fashion, film, collaborations, sculpture, photography, holography, and more) lay the solid skills of a academically trained prodigy. The often-irksome, noteriety seeking mustached Dali was a skilled draftsman who studied by copying the works of the great masters.

• 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
   
• I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing. --Vincent Van Gogh
   
• Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint. --Arshile Gorky
   
• Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure. --Michelangelo
   
• To draw, you must close your eyes and sing. --Pablo Picasso
   
• It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character. --Camille Pissarro
   
• Beautiful colours 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. --Tintoretto
   
• It is not bright colors but good drawing that makes figures beautiful. --Titian

~Cynthia Padilla

Cynthia Padilla is sought out internationally for exhibitions, reviews, lectures and as a travel leader on sketching tours and retreats world wide. Traveling the world --- sketchbook in hand. Padilla has guided enthusiasts, even complete beginners, to sketch and draw with confidence!

Photo: The Persistence of Memory Salvador Dali