Drawing is the honesty of art. To draw does not mean simply to reproduce contours, drawing does not consist merely of line. Drawing is also expression, the inner form, the plane and modelling...

- Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres

It is through drawing that masters are first revealed; through drawing that they live and prove their value, whatever variations they may impose on their talent.

- Gerard Bauer

Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting,
his true personality.

- Edgar Degas