#drawing

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#another #childhood #comes #drawing #everything

Also, I think having that comic gene kind of makes you look at things in a different way. If you take yourself so seriously, eventually you end up one of those people having a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on their lives. You see them drawing the curtains and they don't even realize that they've kind of drifted off somewhere. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#comic #curtains #different #different way #disturb

When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists in the underground never did anything if they weren't stoned, That was the prerequisite for sitting down and drawing. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#anything #around #became #came #cartoonists

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

#assignment #become #being #creative #drawing

When I started to draw, most of my influences were from other painters and illustrators, so I was drawing landscape at second hand, really. The trees were Rackham trees, or trees that I had seen in paintings rather than from my own observation...and I started to feel this was a real lack in my work. Everything was too generalised, and not based on real experience. Then in 1975, after having worked for some years in London as a book cover illustrator mainly, I came down to Devon and stayed with some friends up on the moor. In the course of this one weekend, wandering around the moor, finding rivers and ancient woods, I realised that everything that I would ever want to draw was actually here. There was so much richness in the texture and forms of these fantastic trees...and I decided in the course of that weekend to come and live here. I looked at a couple of houses, found one, and made an offer on it, all in that one weekend! ↗

— Alan Lee

#finding-path #influences #nature #experience

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing. ↗

— David Hockney

#drawing #else #everything #just #nothing

I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L' out of me. ↗

— Bil Keane

#bill #cartoons #drawing #i #knocked

I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh. ↗

— Bil Keane

#come #day #drawings #every #every day

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption. ↗

— James Thurber

#down #dragged #drawing #level

Drawing on a computer doesn't make any sense to me. It's not intuitive. ↗

— Chris Ware

#computer #drawing #intuitive #make #me