Tite Kubo Quotes

I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don't have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.

Paintings don't just happen. I am not a proponent of the idea of an artist as someone who kind of magically makes things and has no real control or isn't willfully producing a certain kind of thing. It is labor-intensive, and it is research-intensive. You are making one decision after another, trying to get at something you think is important.

I start a picture and I finish it.

I have three assistants, but there isn't a head assistant. All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.

I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

I'm not a designer, I'm a creator.

To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

Making art is different for everyone.

My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

I would draw a really sharp distinction between creating and producing. I think that they're very different things.

Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.

What I do is create images, period.

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.

If you're using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through.

I think making a movie is like drawing or creating an art piece. The artwork reflects part of your personality, but not all.

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.

When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.

I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.

A producer should only be there to enable an artist to be himself.

I avoid watching other people's versions of films or plays that I work on.

I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.