Chris Riddell Quotes

When I was a kid, I was always drawing things. I'd get butcher paper or grocery bags and draw on them.

I used to draw a lot.

My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.

I've been taking art classes for a couple of years; I love to draw.

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

I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

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

Art is a sense of magic.

My daughter loves to do art stuff. As a father, I like to play with her. We break out the big pads of paper and the glitter and all the stuff. She likes to do what she likes to do. I want to do something, too. So I've just started using her same materials - a lot of crayons, a lot of sparkle, charcoal, pencils, markers and glue.

I was a pretty alert kid, and I, you know, I was very interested in arts.

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

For me, art is make-believe. It's enchantment. It's a fable. I'm enjoying that and playing with it. Of course it's serious, and art is serious, but I'm not going to rarefy it.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

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

I am very bad at drawing. Seriously. I can draw shoes. That's about it.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

Art is an investigation.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

I love art, in particular, paintings. I have, well, a lot.