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.

-Cennini, Cennino
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.

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

Let us draw upon content for the deficiencies of fortune.

-Goldsmith, Oliver
  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.

-Hirschfeld, Al
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.

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

Draw more and more oftenöremember Degas.

-Pissarro, Camille
  Letter to his son Lucien, Oct.