#drawing

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner. ↗

— Walt Disney

#around #brother #business #corner #disaster

If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers! ↗

— Don Bluth

#both #computers #drawing #drudgery #i

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

Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#directing #doing #drawings #key #mind

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