Drawing Quotes - Page 29

• I've never felt really creative or intuitive using software. I like paper and pens and paint. I need to angle real lights on my artwork and work with my hands and build props. Computers just take all that fun out of it [animation drawing].

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Fun, Real, Light

  Source: www.notcoming.com

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• I remember kids used to give me a penny for drawing them a horse. I loved horses, but I couldn't have one, so I would draw a horse for myself. I would make it food and a blanket for it to wear and a place to live.

  Jan Brett

  Horse, Kids, Giving

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The books take a year just to do the drawing. I will travel to a country to do the research and get ideas. Sometimes I don't travel to do research, but mostly I do. It takes a long time, but do I ever get tired of it? Not really. The characters kind of grow and evolve.

  Jan Brett

  Country, Book, Tired

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• People may think that because I have illustrated and written all these books it must be easy for me, but it's not really easy for me. The drawing part is easy - I love doing it. But continuing to move forward is hard.

  Jan Brett

  Moving, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• In the late 70's I started to make drawings of the ordinary objects I had been using in my work. Initially I wanted them to be ready-made drawings of the kind of common objects I had always used in my work. I was surprised to discover I couldn't find the simple, neutral drawings I had assumed existed, so I started to make them myself.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Simple, Ordinary, Common

  Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com

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• I have been using the computer as a work aid since the mid-90's. It is extraordinarily well suited to how I think and work and has transformed my practice. Nearly everything I have done in the past 15 years would have been impossible without it. I use the computer for drawing, composing and colour planning everything, from postage stamps to paintings to architectural-scale installations.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Past, Thinking, Years

  Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com

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• I was always interested in drawing and creating, but it never really occurred to me that I could pursue art as my profession until my mid twenties. From all I had heard from other people, art was just something you do as a hobby in between your real work and real jobs.

  Julie Dillon

  Art, Jobs, Real

  Source: littleredreviewer.wordpress.com

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• I spent much of my college life prepping for other careers, but I was always drawing and painting whenever I had free time. Eventually, thanks to the internet, I started noticing that there were such things as art schools, and professional artists, and people making a living doing a variety of types of art.

  Julie Dillon

  Art, School, College

  Source: littleredreviewer.wordpress.com

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• The reason I love comics is that they DON'T move, and there is NO sound. As a creator I have to evoke those elements in the drawings and writing, and the reader has to create those elements in their own minds.

  Dave McKean

  Moving, Writing, Mind

  Source: theculturalgutter.com

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• Sometimes the things I learn making paintings or drawings - composition, colour, expressionism, texture - can directly influence the making of a film. Sometimes it's great that they are different, and simply taking a break from one medium to spend time with another, recharges the batteries and I feel refreshed.

  Dave McKean

  Batteries, Different, Taking A Break

  Source: theculturalgutter.com

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• Some liberation theologians maintain that they are not influenced by Marxist philosophy at all. In this case it is necessary to discern whether they say this for tactical reasons, so as not to be compromised politically or whether they are really convinced that Marxism doesn't influence them in any way. I personally think that it is not possible to evade the influence of Marxism, as we cannot commit ourselves to the revolutionary struggle without drawing support from the conclusions of scientific socialism.

  Ernesto Cardenal

  Philosophy, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.crisismagazine.com

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• Drawing from art history and mythology allows me to connect with viewers in a familiar, yet loose visual framework. Blending disparate histories and themes can give the overall presentation a recognizable, yet unique flavor.

  John Dyer Baizley

  Art, Unique, Giving

  "BARONESS' John Dyer Baizley Interview About His Artwork Process". Interview with Michael Weigman, www.metalinjection.net. July 10, 2014.

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• I felt like I had kind of played it out, and I wanted to see what was next, and then came Mythbusters. You know, it's the best job I've ever had, on its worst day it's better than anything else, but it's a huge amount of responsibility, and there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else's drawing sounds like going back to heaven.

  Adam Savage

  Jobs, Responsibility, Best Job

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I do very, very, very simple, skimpy doodles, nothing too committed. Because people tend to fall in love if they like it - if you color it in and they like it, then they want exactly those colors, even if they were just indications. You really have to do it as simple as possible so they can concentrate on the idea and composition. And then all of the energy goes into making the final piece. And the final piece can be anything - it can be a drawing, a painting, a collage - and usually, it's obvious what that should be. Usually, the idea dictates what medium you use.

  Dave McKean

  Falling In Love, Simple, Color

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I love telling stories. And even in single images, I tend to have stories inside them. I've always loved film, but I was making drawings and paintings and photographs. And you put art and narrative together, and that really is comics.

  Dave McKean

  Art, Together, Stories

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have friends and illustrators who can't stand drawing on the Cintiq. [A graphic pad tablet used by digital animators] There's a certain tension and friction when you draw on paper that they miss. The tablet is very slick. It's like drawing on glass. But that didn't bother me at all.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Glasses, Missing, Paper

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• An elegant simplicity is an understated, organic aesthetic that contrasts with the excess of consumerist lifestyles. Drawing from influences ranging from Zen to the Quakers, it celebrates natural materials and clean, functional expressions, such as are found in many of the hand-made arts and crafts from this community.

  Duane Elgin

  Art, Expression, Hands

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• So I was drawing in a lot of the habit district in Brazil, put that together with an Asian influence, so there are a lot of different things in terms of architecture which assisted in the construction. Then every sci-fi movie I've grown up with from 'Blade Runner' to 'Aliens' and 'Star Wars.'"

  Len Wiseman

  Stars, War, Blade Runner

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview With Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors. The names of birds. Things to eat. Finally the name of things one believed to be true. More fragile than he would have thought. How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality. Drawing down like something trying to preserve heat. In time to wink out forever.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Reality, Color, Names

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.75, Vintage

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• Thoughts are sending out that magnetic signal that is drawing the parallel back to you

  Joe Vitale

  Law Of Attraction, Secret, Signals

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• What happens if you start drawing squares? Well, I'd say the answer to that is, don't get famous for drawing circles.

  Trey Anastasio

  Squares, Circles, Answers

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• Drawing never dies, it holds on by the skin of its teeth, because the hunger it satisfies – the desire for an active, investigative, manually vivid relation with the things we see and yearn to know about – is apparently immortal.

  Robert Hughes

  Desire, Skins, Teeth

  "A bastion against cultural obscenity" by Robert Hughes, www.theguardian.com. June 03, 2004.

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• During the winter when the weather is too poor to work outside, I do use drawings and photographs, but I change my work so it is not just a time and place study.

  John Dyer

  Winter, Weather, Work Out

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• I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

  John Dyer

  Father, Artist, Age

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• It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.

  James Thurber

  Home, Alcohol, Departed

  1930 In the New Yorker, 2 Aug.

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