Lynda Barry Quotes

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

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

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

Draw what you see.

What is art but a way of seeing?

I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.

From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.

When you're drawing from observation and experience, whether you intend to or not, you'll create a more relatable cartoon.

I'm inspired by visual stimulation.

I sometimes sit and draw people on the bus, or some fantasy hybrid animal. You know, wherever the hand will lead.

With photography, you've captured a moment time - it's that moment only - and in painting, you play with it; you manipulate how time is presented. It's about fantasy and illusion and the creation of desire.

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

Drawing is of the Spirit and color of the Senses.