- Nov 07, 2020
Drawing Quotes
On sketching through hard days and building a world from scratch.
One quote describes drawing as a therapeutic way to work through things when writing feels impossible, and another mentions playing a drawing game with friends just to unwind. For more on the creative process, see our Art quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Crayons
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
I keep thinking someone's gonna show up and say, 'There's been a big mistake. The guy next door is supposed to be drawing the cartoon. Here's your shovel.'
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.
- Storytelling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always felt more comfortable in fantasy. Fantasy has felt more real to me at times. Drawing was an immediate outlet for that: to create. It's been my ability to create my own world.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's inherently a part of my childhood and my development as a person and an artist, this childlike feeling knowing that something is missing but not quite knowing how to fix it. I'm always drawing on it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain status by asserting dominance over others. In hedonic societies, you gain status by drawing attention to yourself. Open source is a hedonic culture.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you'll probably get the humor in the audio part.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020