David Small Quotes

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

When I was in middle school, I liked to make cartoons.

I've always pre-vized my movies, just on my own. Even when it was, like, zero-budget things, I used this programme to do storyboards because I can't draw that well.

I've always been concerned with my sculpture. The drawings I do at night at home to relax. And for a long time, I just gave them to friends or my wife and didn't really show them.

I don't think I've succeeded in making any really good films. There are moments, scenes, whole movements that sing. It has all added up to a cinema of sorts, even though I'm still learning my art.

Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.

I'm learning about filming, and just conceptualizing as well. I think it's a good artistic inroad, even to music as well.

I enjoy the art, and I enjoy drawing. I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book.

It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're meant to be, and sometimes the artist is informed by the film of what it needs to be.

Drawing is more fun to me than writing. I think it's interesting to talk to different cartoonists about how those activities work for them. I'm a very writerly cartoonist. I certainly spend more time on the writing than I do on the drawing, even though the drawing, of course, is very time-consuming.

The art of making a film and its content are far more interesting to me than the result or impact.

I so love the animation process. Interesting, everything that I do in animation, the kind of crafting and skills of storytelling, totally work within the structure of the Disney nature films. In a weird way, I like to think that animation is like painting, and Disney nature is like sculpting. Animation you start with a blank canvas and you paint. With Disney nature, you start with a big block of imagery and you hone it down into your final story. Somewhere you end up with something kind of pretty to watch.

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.

My recent drawings that personal ones aren't fashion-related. I sometimes sit and draw people on the bus, or some fantasy hybrid animal. You know, wherever the hand will lead.

As far as art and filmmaking is concerned, I don't see there's any separation; it's just one continuous thing.

I still come closest to success with drawing.

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.

Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.

I create for artistic intent only and do everything from life.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

All of my heroes, like Dali, are people who pioneered various forms of cinema.

My two great loves when I'm shooting are working with great actors and composing images.

At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or three people there drawing the model but otherwise you had abstractions all around the room, even though the model was in front of you.