Drawing Can Be

Making

Erasing

Feeling

Looking

Discovery

Informing

Inventing

A language

Expression

Meditative

Examination

Exploratory

A construction

An abstraction

A way of seeing

Just expression

Following a line

Human expression

The basis of art

Perspective giving

The honesty of art

A way to make clear

Speaking to the eye

The art of omission

A sculptural process

A species of writing

A way of seeing form

Carving an image out

The action of seeing

The true test of art

More fun than writing

The sum of directions

To reproduce contours

A personality revealer

An idea more than fact

Representing an object

The cornerstone of art

A line going for a walk

An exercise of dexterity

Not distinct from colour

Taking a line for a walk

The line exploring space

The precision of thought

What we see of the world

Our understanding of form

Seeing the way things are

A way of relieving tension

The representation of form

Making a sense of something

A fundamental vehicle of art

Putting a line around an idea

A way to come up with pictures

The mechanics of visual thought

An attempt to construct an event

What locates, suggests, discovers

A way of navigating the imagination

Exercise for a restless imagination

A model of how to construct meaning

Obtaining and communicating knowledge

An immediate way of articulating an idea

The most direct and spontaneous expression

A soliloquy before it becomes communication

Observation, problem-solving and composition

The necessary beginning of everything in art

The graphic expression of a visual experience

Taking out, returning to the white of the paper

A way of reserving a place for colour in advance

Freedom from the distractions of colour and mass

A means of expressing intimate feelings and moods

A way of coming upon the connection between things

Outlining a figure, plan, or sketch by means of lines

The simplest way of establishing a picture vocabulary

Making a gesture that is both physical and intellectual

The most direct and personal kind of graphic expression

The most important of all the problems of picture-making

A transcription of how we see reality, not reality itself

A discipline by which we constantly rediscover the world

Putting the visual intelligence into action

Making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence

Like metaphor in poetry - reconnecting what has become separated

An attempt to understand what we feel about the world we live in

Using instruments to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface

A representation of the visual world, expressed upon a plane surface

An instant, personal declaration of what is important and what is not

A way to articulate things inside ourselves that we can't otherwise grasp

An escape from unnecessary things in life that get in the way of being free

The marking of lines and areas of tone onto paper or other material

The coordination of line, tone, and colour symbols into formations that express thought

An autobiographical record of our discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined

The poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing

A way to educate the eye to understand visual information, and organize it into a more hierarchical and economical way