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Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.

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

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

Drawing teaches you to look at things properly and to understand form and structure.

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

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 was a cheap way for me to express myself. It gave a focus to my thinking and my life from a very early age.

Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm not sure what will come out.