Line Quotes

Art is a line around your thoughts.

Gustav Klimt

Draw lines - draw a lot of lines.

Ingres

Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

Matisse

Drawing takes time. A line has time in it.

Hockney

I have solved what colour is, however; I still have no idea about what line is.

Leonardo da Vinci

Draw lines, young man, many lines, from memory or from nature; it is in this way that you will become a good artist.

Ingres

The line I trace with my feet walking to the museum is more important and more beautiful than the lines I find there hung up on the walls.

Hundertwasser

Her lines are not there to represent her subject. She was exploring her subject. The lines are evidence of her curiosity. More than space, her lines demarcate a journey.

Draw on both sides of the line, not just what you're enclosing. The shape you're making on the outside is as important as the one you're making on the inside.

Leon Polk Smith

Points joined together continuously in a row constitute a line. So for us a line will be a sign whose length can be divided into parts, but it will be so slender that it cannot be split…if many lines are joined closely together like threads in a cloth, they will create a surface.

Leon Battista Alberti