For the artist drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase, it is quite literally true. It is the actual act of drawing that forces the artist to look at the object in front of him, to dissect it in his mind’s eye and put it together again; or, if he is drawing from memory, that forces him to dredge his own mind, to discover the content of his own store of past observations.
Berger J. Berger on Drawing. Aghabullogue, Co. Cork: Occasional Press (II edition, 2007), p.3.
Drawing works to abolish the principle of Disappearance, but it never can, and instead it turns appearance and disappearance "into a game" [which] can never be won, or wholly controlled, or adeguately understood.
Elkins J., letter to John Berger (2004), in Berger J. Berger on Drawing. Aghabullogue, Co. Cork: Occasional Press (2005), p.112.
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