Harvey Ball Quotes

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

You see, anything I imagined, I could draw.

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

Don't think it, ink it.

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Modeling isn't boring.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

When I draw my caricature self-portrait, I always do a huge smile.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

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

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

The drawing is already partly there - it's in the paper. And the paper is talking before you do.

In school, some of my favorite subjects... I mean, art was my favorite subject. I loved art! I used to go during lunch time to the art room and paint or draw or something.

I've always had an interest in design, and I have always loved creating things.

Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.

So, you pick this stuff here and this stuff there and then you see things in certain ways and you start visualizing and thank God I get the chance to do this. It's really the greatest thing in the whole wide world.

Everybody draws when they are little.

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.