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

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.

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.

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

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.

I want to bring drawing back to the basics, make it about the pleasure that it can afford and remove the notion that it's some kind of precious or difficult activity. It's another way of telling a story.

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

I want to show how much fun you can have drawing... parents and children can draw together as a wonderful shared activity.

I practiced drawing all the time and became very interested in it. If I was at a meeting that wasn't getting anywhere - like the one where Carl Rogers came to Caltech to discuss with us whether Caltech should develop a psychology department - I would draw the other people.