Drawing Quotes

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late ’30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.

I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views and they must all be equally good.

I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because ‘you aren’t going to make a living doing that.’ I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

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.

In Miami they’re building all these hideous monstrosities. It’s just so easy to be an architect, once you’ve got the ability to do your computer drawings. They just knock off each other. There’s nothing creative in any of them.

I like charcoal drawing a lot. I’m not very good, but I always find myself buying canvases and paints whenever I’m on location, because I always have this ambition to fill the hotel room I’m in and turn it into an art studio.

Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.

As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.

Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.