We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don’t believe in Americans, who will?
My very first movie, ‘Mary Poppins,’ which I talk about, it just turned me into an obsessive, creative creature who had to sort of reply to the experience by drawing things, making things. It was like it forced – it made me into this obsessive, creative creature… I don’t know any other way of putting it.
None of us knew what this power plant looked like. We had no schematic drawing.
My mother was a very big inspiration. She loved fashion. I loved art in school, and I was very good at drawing. I could sit at the table forever and just dream up collections and draw.
Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures.
I think working with kids and seeing how kids are universally children – no matter what you do, they love playing on a bongo and they love drawing and they love playing – that is a great uniter.
Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.
What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?
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.
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
In 1970, I was turning 29 years old, just 4 years out of art school. I had created a black and white drawing style mascot portrait called ‘Johnny.’ I made a poster for it and sent it around the world to corporate art departments.
For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing. My teachers encouraged my art work. When I was 9 or 10, I began learning piano and started writing music.
Painting, drawing – I’m really into photography, I’ve done it since high school.
Any cartoon that can be liked by a committee is really not worth drawing; in fact, must not be drawn at all! Better to become a stockbroker.
In ‘Gran Torino,’ Eastwood moves towards the climax of the movie not by staging a shoot-out, but by putting his weapons to one side and confronting the bad guys armed only with a cigarette lighter, guessing that as he reaches for it they will think he’s drawing a pistol.
Well, I love tattoos and have been drawing them on my binders in school since I was little.
I don’t think about drawing the contact on purpose. I just want to get to the line.
As long as I can remember, I was drawing or trying to create something.
With drawing, I am acutely aware of creating something on a sheet of paper. It is a sensual act, which you cannot say about the act of writing. In fact, I often turn to drawing to recover from the writing.
I love food, and I love drawing it, particularly.
For me, travelling and drawing the world, experiencing as much as possible first hand, has been very important. Making notes, drawing and writing on the move, became second nature.
I’m just a guy drawing comics. Guys knocking other guys through buildings. Guys flipping tanks over on each other. I’m just trying to be true to what I liked as a kid.
I like drawing people in the airport or on the bus or in venues. I like catching people in the moment. It’s a similar inspiration for me in terms of songwriting.
This simple idea served to provide information on the geometrical shape of reacting molecules, and I was able to make the role of the frontier orbitals in chemical reactions more distinct through visualization, by drawing their diagrams.
I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.
Research suggests that someone who is constantly drawing on their creative abilities can, on average, be productive for no more than six hours a day.
For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.
People go into cartooning because they’re shy and they’re angry. That’s when you’re sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.
When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
I keep drawing inspiration from people every day. All of a sudden, something strikes me so hard and dramatically, and then a dream comes – I sit down, cut it off and make a script out of it.
I paint; I draw and paint – I’ve been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.
I wasn’t artistic in drawing or painting, but I think I am artistic in sport. I think I’m always looking for the ultimate, the maximum. It’s a challenge that excites me.
All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God’s hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.
While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate.
I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.
I’m a competitor. Any time you work hard and you envision something a certain way and it’s not going as you planned and you see it, you know, you go back to the drawing board and you figure it out.
My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which now that I look back on some things, she would love it, she would say that’s amazing, or if I’d make the ugliest drawing, she would hang it up. She was amazing.
I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs, and how the couches would be situated.
I’ve always liked writing. Even when I was in art school and thought I was going to be a gallery painter, I liked to pair my artwork with writing. And so that naturally led to drawing comics.
Much before I entered films, my dad walked into my room and saw me busy drawing something at 3 A.M. He stood there for some time and said, ‘Whatever career choice you make, you are going to be successful.’ I’ll never forget those words. It gave me the confidence to be who I am today.
I love Maira Kalman. She’s an amazing illustrator and writer. I’ve loved her since I was in college, but when I moved to New York and experienced the same city she was drawing and writing about, I developed a whole new appreciation. Her work made me observe everything so much deeper and more joyfully.
When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.
If I’m not with my family or playing football then I’m usually in my office writing and drawing.
I think if you want to do a thing properly you have to take a lot of care. I’ve always found it’s easier to draw comics if you know clearly in your head what you’re drawing, rather than if you try and make it up as you go along.
The drawing is already partly there – it’s in the paper. And the paper is talking before you do.
I base everything on my instinctual approach. There’s something very satisfying in that creativity, and it’s a bit like an infant drawing.
Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
Film is a very collaborative medium. If you’re smart enough, you learn how to maintain your vision while drawing resourcefully from all the people around you.
It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it’s very physical.
I’m just drawing it now. It’s totally revolting. I’m sure you’ll love it.
It’s sometimes hard to wrap your head around a big story, and for most of us drawing editorial cartoons 9/11/ 01, that was the biggest story of our professional lives.
The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it’s the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.
I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.
