Marc Davis Quotes

Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands.

All comic books take place in built environments, and I was very good at drawing people and animals, and stuff like that, but I hadn't spent much energy drawing buildings. So I thought, maybe I could, and then I became an architect.

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.

I was always pretty good at designing things.

I've always had a good handle on drawing children.

I went to film school at UT Austin. I learned a lot, and that school's good for puking up all your bad movies early and quick. But ultimately, no one can teach you to be an artist.

My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in class, except in second grade when an artistic genius passed through our school!

I can't draw a straight line to save my life. I just can't draw.

I wish I could draw.

I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing.

I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin' like myself.

I can draw really well.

We moved from place to place, and it was hard to adjust to different schools. But we made it.

My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.

If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you're Rembrandt or not.

I can't say I was consciously thinking of the big changes in the music business when I was writing the lyrics, but change, uncertainty, flux, impermanence - these are things I'm acutely aware of. And I enjoy facing it all.

A person cannot learn to be a photographer. He can only cultivate what he already has. I try to make people aware that they have something very precious to cultivate.

Nothing is forever except change.

Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change

Nothing is permanent but change.

I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.

I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every other writer I know feels he is steering himself, and I don't have that feeling. I don't have that sort of control. I'm simply becoming. I'm startled that I became a writer.

Your eye is a muscle, you have to keep it in shape and the more you draw, the more you see.