Henri Matisse Quotes

Growing up, I enjoyed drawing, but it was always in the service of an idea. I drew all the time, and I enjoyed making.

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.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

I like creating images.

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

'Fowl Space' was a lovechild of boredom. While in class, two of the developers started passing designs back and forth. Somewhere in the middle of all that ink and crumpled paper, a chicken in a space helmet was born and thus we have 'Fowl Space.'

I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.

When you have a brush in your hand, inking a beautiful woman is a lot like running your hands over her.

I still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis.

My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.

I used to draw a lot.

A lot of times, the idea of a comic will be, 'Wouldn't it be cool if you...' But instead of doing it, I'll draw a comic about it.

To be an animator you have to be able to tell stories but I'm not very verbal - I definitely do it through pictures.

My wife will go, 'You know, you're drawing a shoe right now.' I do that all the time.

When you are a designer, what's important is to be aware of things. Everything should lead to an idea, a line to follow, a movement.

Writing is not my forte, but I am good at visualising.

I love design; to create stuff from ground zero is the best for me. I'm always so intense when I talk about that.

I have sketched since a young age, so there's always been an artistic side, a visual side to my personality.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

A lot of my sketches came from thoughts, and I always just wanted to act them out.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

Everything's a film idea if this is what you do.I've always been secretly confident that I'd never run out of ideas,because I've never had any. I just live my life, see things theway I do, and I'm just looking for a notion to hang it all on.

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.