Sloane Crosley Quotes

There is, however, a change going on in the world. There's far more interest in drawing now than there has been in a long, long time. Schools are beginning to teach drawing again in a serious and meaningful way.

I have been drawing all my life.

I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.

It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes. The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one's own hand - that is what is necessary.

I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.

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

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.

In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft drawings, and I got a lot of attention for that, so that was very validating. But I didn't start cartooning until I was in college.

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.

This image of wanting to be an artist - that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I knew for a long, long time that that's what I would be. But nothing I ever did seemed to bring me any nearer to the condition of being an artist. And I didn't know how to do it.

I have no drawing talent whatsoever. I cannot do it.

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.

I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.

My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.

I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do with how I was thinking. I was making beautifully sanded wooden boxes!

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!

For a long time, I was brilliantly achieving drawings that were inert, suffocating and dark. If ever you need illustrations that are inert, suffocating and dark, I know how to do them.

I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.

I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.

I can draw really well.

I love to draw, although I wish I was better at it.

I drew as a child, they tell me. I can vaguely remember doing it. And then I drew again in the late years at high school.