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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 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 still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.

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

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.

A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.

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

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.

To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.