While I appreciate the sentiment of the article, and I agree that drawing is of the "1st degree" (I also believe speech to be of the first degree) a mistake is made here about the nature of drawing. Some of the argument falls apart when you realize that act of drawing is not simply a question of representation. There's a whole world to drawing which is about things which do not exist, or rather those things which have no being outside of our thoughts. Or drawing a scene which shows more than could be experienced in real life- thus the beauty of many old, old drawings as well as a great deal of contemporary ones.
