Jaime Hernandez Quotes

Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.

It is often said that Leonardo drew so well because he knew about things; it is truer to say that he knew about things because he drew so well.

What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to be sure that nothing evaded my grasp of it... My objective is to test to what extent my hands already feel what my eyes see.

You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time.

Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head.

Every time I learn a new thing to do on my computer, I have to write it down so that I can remember it.

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

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.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

My learning process is by eye alone; it's not at all scientific.

We are not born with effective vision. The human infant has to learn how to see. The eyes gather information, they transmit it to the brain, but the brain doesn't know how to process it yet. We learn how to see in a way that's very similar to the way we learn how to speak. It takes a couple of years.

I used to think that when I finished a book, I was finished with it. But it's like a wonderful Hydra. Every time a head disappears, more heads appear, so I will be writing for the rest of my life. The more books I write, the more books I find that I still have to write about. I use it like an inspiration, and that's wonderful.

In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

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.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

No one tells a child how to see, especially in the early years. They learn this through real-world experiences and examples.

When I started school, I would draw pictures at the end of my sentences: a house, a flower, a tree, a bird. Whatever was in the sentence, I'd draw it.

Observe Everything. Communicate Well. Draw, Draw, Draw.

I sketch the faces upside down because it's like drawing from the left side of the brain or the right side of the brain. I never took an art lesson in my life.

A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.

There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.

I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing.

I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.