Quentin Blake Quotes

I still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis.

I have been drawing all my life.

Growing up, I enjoyed drawing, but it was always in the service of an idea. I drew all the time, and I enjoyed making.

When I was a kid, I was always drawing things. I'd get butcher paper or grocery bags and draw on them.

In the practice of art... it is necessary to keep a watchful and jealous eye over ourselves; idleness, assuming the specious disguise of industry... may be employed to evade and shuffle off real labor - the real labor of thinking.

I paint daily with watercolors on 5-by-7-inch pads that are small enough for me to take them everywhere.

Over the years I always did some water colors, and I did a series of pictures of drawings. I always did it during a period of time that was slow in the photo business, but in essence it was always frustrating because I'd get started, and then it would be time to get back to work and I wouldn't get anywhere with the painting.

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.

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 enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.

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.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

We show people that anybody can paint a picture that they're proud of. It may never hang in the Smithsonian, but it will certainly be something that they'll hang in their home and be proud of. And that's what it's all about.

When you are little, you will draw pictures for no reason.

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

I hope I will be able to paint as long as I live.

I've been painting off and on since I was in sixth grade. I don't paint when I'm acting - I'm not really able to split my focus that way. I do it intensely when I'm doing it, but I'm reluctant to take myself too seriously as a painter because that would mean there would be pressure to be better than I am.

I love to draw people's faces. I do that all the time.

Seven days a week, I'm always drawing, doodling, or painting, whether I'm in the studio or on a plane.

I drew a lot. I always had sketchbooks. My parents were really great about any gift-giving holiday - birthdays, Hanukkah, Christmas - it was always art supplies for my brother and I.

Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.