Line mandala art.

 " A mandala is...an integrated structure organized around a unifying center."

“Everything that shows up in your mandala is a vehicle for your awakening. From this point of view awakening is right at your fingertips continually.”

Drawing Quotes.

"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye...it also includes the inner pictures of the soul."-Edvard Munch.

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."-Twyla Tharp.

"To my mind a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful and pretty. There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them."-Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

"Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make."-David Hockney.

"In drawing, one must look for or suspect that there is more than is casually seen."-George Bridgman.

"Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see -- to see correctly -- and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye."-Kimon Nicolaides.

"It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover, to your surprise, that you have rendered something in its true character."-Camille Pissarro.

"My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It’s about making the best kind of image I can make, it’s about talking as clearly as I can."-Jim Dine.

"Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.-Arshile Gorky.

"Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated."-John Berger.