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Fortunately, my high-school history teacher appreciated my caricatures of Nixon in the margins of my political essays!
It sounds like all of us appreciate the freedom of expression that we enjoy by drawing, as from imagination (harkening back to those controversial comments about the "reality" of lines -- to me, it's all what we see, or choose to see).
My defense of "painterliness" as opposed to "draughtsmanship" (as I have learned the terms of the classical debate) is not to denigrate the art of drawing -- arguably the Mother of Visual Arts -- but rather to praise the virtues of painting as an art unto itself -- something most laypeople don't seem to appreciate.
For me, drawing outlines forms, enhancing my visualization of them; but painting (even more than simple shading with a pencil) further solidifies forms, allowing me to "feel" their surfaces and weight with my paintbrush -- that to me is the greatest creative satisfaction...short of sculpture (as Genesis and Darwin agree, people were ultimately created from the clay of the Earth).
There are many "dimensions" to art!
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