Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

—Salvador Dali

To demand perfection is a sure way to be disappointed in everybody, for you will be bound to think ill of others.

—Salvador Dali

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

—Salvador Dali

I do not take drugs—I am drugs.

—Salvador Dali

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

—Salvador Dali

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

—Norman McLaren

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

—Balthus

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

—Barbara Hepworth

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

—Henri Matisse

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

—John W. Gardner