Diane Duane Quotes

I start a picture and I finish it.

I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

I like all sorts of art, that's why I love wandering around The National Gallery.

The thing that weighs the most on how your final artwork turns out is the amount of time you have and the speed at which you can move.

A sketch is just a mini movie.

I love art, in particular, paintings. I have, well, a lot.

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

With pencil, you can always erase.

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there... If you're working correctly, the feeling doesn't wander about.

Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something.

At restaurants, I always get a kids' menu and color or draw on the tablecloth.

I love arts and crafts.

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.

I've always liked to draw.

Kids would come up to me after concerts and give me drawings they've made of violins or, you know, landscapes with a violin floating in it or some sketch of a concert or a portrait of me.

I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the world that contained even the imagination of Fáfnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever the cost of peril.

The books take a year just to do the drawing. I will travel to a country to do the research and get ideas. Sometimes I don't travel to do research, but mostly I do. It takes a long time, but do I ever get tired of it? Not really. The characters kind of grow and evolve.

Ever since I was little, I’ve loved making hand-made cards and presents and arts & crafts for people.

Accent the ugly until it becomes gorgeous.

I can be most colorful and inventive when I am angry.

I am constantly drawing inspiration from everything I see-the places I travel, the people I know and the movies I see.

Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.