John Gourley Quotes

As long as I can remember, I was drawing or trying to create something.

As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much.

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

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

I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things.

From the time I was three or four years old, I drew all the time. Drew all the time, every second.

I have been drawing all my life.

I've been painting and making things since I was little.

When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.

I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone.

The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

I draw plays every day.

I probably started painting when I was in preschool.

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

I've been drawing as long as I can remember. I think all children draw as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing.

Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.

I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

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.

I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.

I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual art - anything I could get my hands on, whether it was glassblowing, sculpture, painting, or photography. I always wanted to be a painter. Or a farmer.

Everyone can draw when they're five. Most of us lose the ability.

Except for me, no one in my family could draw.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

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.