Bil Keane Quotes

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

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

From an early age, I had always loved drawing. Laying on the floor, in front of the fire, drawing from my imagination, marching soldiers, dive bombers, spaceships and monsters. Now, suddenly, I was drawing from real life!

You have to be creative. It's the basics. You can't be Picasso unless you know how to draw a real face; then you can turn it upside down.

I used to draw a lot.

I drew as a child, they tell me. I can vaguely remember doing it. And then I drew again in the late years at high school.

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

I have never been much of a painter.

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

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

Few people know that I am also an artist; I truly enjoy sketching and drawing.

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.

I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it.

One of the perks of being a 'New Yorker' cartoonist is that you get to hang around with interesting people. My fellow cartoonists are all interesting, and all highly creative.

But to me what seems to be missing in a lot of portfolios is Cartooning.

When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.

I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It's impressive.

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

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.

From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.

I was taught to draw very well when I was in school at Boston. And I grew to enjoy drawing so much that I never stopped.

I can sketch up a storm, and I'm very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span.