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Drawing is a visual art which makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencil, pen and ink, ink brush, wax color pencil, crayon, charcoal, chalk, pastel, marker, stylus, or various metals like silverpoint. An artist who practices or works in drawing may be referred to as a draftsman or draughtsman. A small amount of material is released onto the two dimensional medium which leaves a visible mark—the process is similar... full article at wikipedia

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artwork	artist
Untitled	Robert Gober
Woman	Willem de Kooning
Working drawing for Wall Drawing #937: Various shapes in color	Sol LeWitt
Junior High School, Hertforshire, England	Damien Smith
Suprematist Drawing	Kazimir Malevich
Untitled	Jay DeFeo
Untitled (Tree Forms)	Gordon Matta-Clark
Hospital No. 2 (Chronic Care Ward)	Damien Smith
Untitled (Hands of the figure Hope), study for the mural Creation, Anfiteatro...	Diego Rivera
City Rooftop	John Gutmann
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My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.	James Thurber
In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.	Paul Klee
A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.	James Thurber
Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.	Pablo Picasso
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