Lucy Fry Quotes

I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression.

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'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.

Drawing is the root of everything.

In the same way, I can wake up with a very positive idea of what I want to do for my collection, and be completely desperate at night regarding the same thing. And I do a lot of other things too: Writing for me is almost as important as drawing my collection.

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.

Since childhood, I have been painting, for no special reason, numerous dots and nets, drawing from the hallucinations that seem to appear endlessly. I can't explain why if you ask me.

I do not know if you bridle your pen, but when my pencil moves, it is necesary to let it go, or - crash!... nothing more.

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.

When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it all.

I worked at Disney many years ago. They just let me sit in a room for a couple of years and draw whatever I wanted to draw, so it's a very personal thing to me. Drawing and everything you do there is something meaningful and personal.

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

Try drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination.

What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.

Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh-- To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must invent and paint; But oh my wit is not Like one of those kind substantives That answer Who and What?

I imagine them very clearly and then attempt to describe what I can see. Sometimes I draw them for my own amusement! (talking about her characters and scenes)

Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.

People who write books - they live in their own world as they're writing. But people who are doing shows or big movies - not only are you writing this world that you're living in, but you're also simultaneously running a circus, and you can kind of start losing your mind like that.

Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions.

I enjoy the drawing more than the writing, so I try to think of ideas that will allow me to develop the visual side of the strip as fully as possible.

I think that at its best, painting can be an act of juggling perceptions, a hall of mirrors. And it can be a bit confusing and scattering. But as the artist, as the man behind the velvet rope who controls the smoke and the mirrors and the way that things move in the painted space, what I want to do is to try my best to be a good witness.

All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.