Defend me, therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up!

-Cowper,William
  The Task, bk.3,'The Garden', l.187^90.

Drawing is not the form; it is the way of seeing the form.

-Degas, (Hilaire Germain) Edgar
Quoted in P  Vale¤  ry Degas, danse, dessin (1938).

Drawing is onlya necessary evil, proportions are easily determined: colour isthe goal, the beginning and end of art.

-Heinse,Wilhelm
  Ardinghello.

   Iwas a sculptor.Butthat'sreallydrawingöa drawing you fall over in the dark, a three-dimensional drawing.

-Hirschfeld, Al
  In the NewYork Times, 21  Jun. 85th birthday interview.

The art of drawing is the art of omission.

-Liebermann, Max
Quoted in Paul Klee On Modern  Art (1979).