Eddie Campbell Quotes

I could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture.

The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.

I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression.

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'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

Why talk when you can paint?

I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing.

If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture.

I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.

I prefer writing for myself to perform, I guess. But if I had to choose, I'd rather perform in someone's movie than write a movie for someone else.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.

Artists need to express.

Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.

Some people take pictures; I write songs.

I have been drawing and creating visual works my entire life, as long as I can remember.

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.

I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.

Film, I think, is my medium.

Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating.

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

Writing and Painting are the same for me.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

It's much easier to teach writing, because people are less shy about writing. If they're in a group, nobody can see what they're writing. When you're drawing, people get a little more nervous.