Billy Connolly Quotes

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

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

When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.

I start a picture and I finish it.

I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist.

But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of reading and adventures into what else is being done by other artists/writers and poets. Like breathing. I've written poems or fictions to go with a painting. The source for the inspiration of the art often eludes me.

I carry a notebook full of sketches of pictures I want to take - they are really scruffy sketches, but at least I am going out there with a clear objective.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

When I sit down to begin penciling a page, most of the hard work for me is done. I can concentrate solely on my art from that point on, which is the fun part!

I would like to say to children, 'Don't stop drawing. Don't tell yourself you can't draw.' Everyone can draw. If you make a mark on a page, you can draw.

As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me.

I don't really picture anyone when I'm drawing. They just become their own completed person with googly eyes.

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

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

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

I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I never would've seen. And I get to draw all the time.

I always listen to music while I draw.

Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.

My sketchbooks are usually just a line on one page or a circle, which to most people must be totally meaningless. But to me, they are very important to the thing I am working on.

Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.