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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.

The subject of the lesson itself should not become more important that the underlying basis. Drawing thus provides first the written forms of letters and then their printed forms. Based on drawing, we build up to reading.

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.

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

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

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

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.

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.