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

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.

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

If you have an idea, you have to move on it, to make a gesture. Drawing is an immediate way of articulating that idea - of making a gesture that is both physical and intellectual.

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.

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

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.