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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.

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.

There is, however, a change going on in the world. There's far more interest in drawing now than there has been in a long, long time. Schools are beginning to teach drawing again in a serious and meaningful way.

From an early age, I had always loved drawing. Laying on the floor, in front of the fire, drawing from my imagination, marching soldiers, dive bombers, spaceships and monsters. Now, suddenly, I was drawing from real life!

Even though I'm usually not conscious of it, I think drawing has always served a sort of therapeutic purpose in my life. There's something about the process of translating the messy chaos of real life into a clean, simple drawing that's always been comforting to me.

After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.

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.

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

People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.