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  • Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is it will be well worth while, and it will do you a world of good.

    - Cennino Cennini
    c.1400  Il Libro dell'Arte ('The Craftsman's Handbook').

  • It is all very well to copy what you see; it is much better to draw what you see only in memory.

    - (Hilaire Germain) Edgar Degas
    Quoted in R H Ives Gammell The Shop-Talk of Edgar Degas (1961).

  • Let us draw upon content for the deficiencies of fortune.

    - Oliver Goldsmith
      The Vicar of  Wakefield, ch.3.

  •    Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.

    - Al Hirschfeld
    Of Edward Lear and James Thurber. Quoted in Neil  A Grauer Remember Laughter (1994).

  • Ifdrawing belongstotherealmoftheSpirit and colour to that of the Senses, you must draw first, to cultivate the Spirit and to be able to lead colour through the paths of the Spirit.

    - Henri EŁ  mile Beno|"  t Matisse
      Letter to Henry Clifford, quoted in  Jack D Flam Matisse on Art (1973).

  • Draw more and more oftenremember Degas.

    - Camille Pissarro
      Letter to his son Lucien, Oct.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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