Richard P. Feynman Quotes

You’re got to be angry—of course it helps if you can draw pretty well.

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

I draw hundreds and hundreds of pictures of sort of gnarly looking men, so I don't know what that tells you. People who look like... they're waiting for a sandwich that's never going to come. I don't know what's wrong with me.

I've been drawing since I was five years old.

I've been painting since I was a kid.

Drawing is the root of everything.

I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.

It is the brushwork of the right value and color which should produce the drawing.

It used to kind of upset me when I'd be working on a part in my hotel room, and I'd get an idea for a song and find myself on the guitar for an hour when I should be working on my lines. But I've discovered that when I start to shake up my creativity it wants to be expressed in all kinds of different ways. They all kind of inform each other.

I drew pictures rapidly and with few lines, because I had to write most of the pieces, too, and couldn't monkey long with the drawings. The divine urge was no higher than that.

To have a creative outlet that you can control is really important because you do a lot of waiting to be cast, then waiting to go into production, and then waiting on set.

Drawing is deception.

I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual art - anything I could get my hands on, whether it was glassblowing, sculpture, painting, or photography. I always wanted to be a painter. Or a farmer.

The art of drawing is the art of omission.

Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.

I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.

I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas.

A drawing should be a verdict on the model. Don't confuse a drawing with a map.

The whole thing of working in all these different mediums, it's just so that I can always be playing hooky from one of them. I can always be rebelling against my boss. Like, I'm supposed to be writing this book, but - heh heh heh - I'm writing a movie, secretly. I'm procrastinating, and in my off-hours I'm working on this movie that I'm not allowed to do, because I'm supposed to be writing a book!

Artists are better at finding a way to kill their time.

I can look at my early work and see what a pained struggle it was to draw what I was drawing. I was trying so hard to get this specific look that was in my head, and always falling short.

I think the best thing I learned from drawing comics is that it's a great exercise in concision.

What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to be sure that nothing evaded my grasp of it... My objective is to test to what extent my hands already feel what my eyes see.

Drawing is your understanding of form.

I paint when I cannot photograph.