Abbi Jacobson Quotes

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

When I draw, I always recall my mindset when I was a child.

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.

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

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

I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we'd have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under the tree. Those were for them. For me? My No. 1 favorite present of all time: books. Two or three tall stacks of wonderful stories that I could lose myself in for weeks.

That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models.

I want to show how much fun you can have drawing... parents and children can draw together as a wonderful shared activity.

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

I am very bad at drawing. Seriously. I can draw shoes. That's about it.

My parents are creative on many fronts, and they pushed me to be that way, too. They wanted me to write, actually.

I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.

Color has always been important to me, ever since my first deluxe box of Crayolas.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

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

I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.

I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old.

I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays; I would write my own stories.

Sometimes I like to draw.

We are all born artists. If you have kids, you know what I mean. Almost everything kids do is art. They draw with crayons on the wall.

I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I am trying to communicate through my writing. My images are like drawings in a science text book.

I get really cool gifts, and I know this sounds really lame, but I think one of the best gifts I've ever received was the Easy Bake Oven when I was younger. When I was little, I loved to bake! I want to get one now so I can make weird mini desserts for people.

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

Everybody draws when they are little.