John Berger Quotes

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

I drew pictures rapidly and with few lines, because I had to write most of the pieces, too, and couldn't monkey long with the drawings. The divine urge was no higher than that.

A colourist makes his presence known even in a simple charcoal drawing.

When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

I've been taking art classes for a couple of years; I love to draw.

I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.

When you have a brush in your hand, inking a beautiful woman is a lot like running your hands over her.

I love very much to draw animals.

I love to draw people's faces. I do that all the time.

I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do.

All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing is always my notation.

In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.

I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing.

I went to art college. I like to be creative. I use food as my medium at the moment but it could easily be illustrations in the future, or something else.

Collage is not a kitchen sink; it's not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.

When I draw, I always recall my mindset when I was a child.

Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit of burnt wood was also good because I was drawing burnt wood with a piece of wood. I wanted to do black and white. After using color, I thought black and white would be good. You can have color in black and white. There is color in them, actually.

Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist.

It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem

Drawing takes time. A line has time in it

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about... I understand what he was doing: discovering what's there... to make the line meaningful, to find a linear solution.