Drawing Quotes

The method of producing comics in Japan is very hectic, but it’s also rewarding because it’s possible to do both the story and art all by yourself. In this way,

But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.

I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.

I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.

A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.

The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.

I did gardening and cooking and drawing and reading to try take the pressure off the music – just being eclectic and putting the fun back in and bringing more innocence in again is really important.

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.

There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].