I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
I have a personal definition of cartooning, which is, simply, "imaginative drawing." Anything you're drawing that is not in front of you but is a mental construct that you want to express in a drawing is, to me, a cartoon.
I grew up with a pencil. A pencil was my computer at the time and so drawing, drawing, drawing and the tools of drawing where the usual ones and eventually then you graduated from the tools when the work increases and you start to draw by freehand as precise as possible and as accurate as possible, and I was pretty good at that.
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.
You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.
In my work I've never done preliminary drawing, because it's sometimes difficult to repeat something or to continue when the urgency's gone.
I work on drawing as a final product.
It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing.
You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.
To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
I draw manga, therefore I am!
You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
Drawing is the simplest way of establishing a picture vocabulary because it is an instant, personal declaration of what is important and what is not.
In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.
The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space outside. This in itself is a sacred act. Architecture in itself conveys this idea of limiting space. It's a limit between the finite and the infinite. From this point of view, all architecture is sacred.
A straight line can readily be drawn among each of the two series of points corresponding to the maxima and minima, thus showing that there is a simple relation between the brightness of the variables and their periods.
Even the most powerful human being has a limited sphere of strength. Draw him outside of that sphere and into your own, and his strength will dissipate.
If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something.
When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No one can legislate love; it cannot be given orders or cajoled into service. Love belongs to itself, deaf to pleading and unmoved by violence. Love is not something you can negotiate. Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.
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