In this paper we consider two-dimensional quasilinear equations of the form $\text{div}\left(a\left(\left|\nabla u\right|\right)\nabla u\right)+f\left(u\right)=0$ and study the properties of the solutions u with bounded and non-vanishing gradient. Under a weak assumption involving the growth of the argument of $\nabla u$(notice that $\text{arg}\left(\nabla u\right)$ is a well-defined real function since $\left|\nabla u\right|>0$ on ${\mathbb{R}}^2$) we prove that $u$ is one-dimensional, i.e., $u=u\left(\nu \cdot x\right)$ for some unit vector $\nu$. As a consequence of our result we obtain that any solution $u$ having one positive derivative is one-dimensional. This result provides a proof of...