Lynda Barry Quotes

At 16, I was drawing cartoons, and I wanted to carry on being a cartoonist.

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

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

In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.

I'm an artist at heart.

When I was a kid, I loved to draw, and I was lucky because I had parents and teachers and grown-ups around who recognised and encouraged that.

All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so.

I love modeling but also see it as a platform for the million other things I want to achieve and create in life.

Welcome every talent, hail every invention, cherish every gem of art—foster every gleam of authorship, honor every acquirement and every natural gift, lift ourselves to the level of our destinies...

Becoming an artist is not empirical; it's not about hard work. You have to put the work in, but that doesn't mean you're going to make it.

The wonderful news is that when a person with my lack of art background can be successful, then anyone can. I'm not super talented and had no art training. Nothing, nada, zip. No workshops or classes.

You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

I still come closest to success with drawing.

As an artist, I've been very fortunate.

I feel like I have just been really, really lucky to meet some of the most successful and great actors alive today.

Movies are magical. Sometimes it just works, it catalyzes, and everything falls into place, and no one knows exactly how or why.

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.

I'm grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

I love artists. I find them fascinating. To me, there really is a genuine magic in what they do.

I have been drawing and creating visual works my entire life, as long as I can remember.

You don't have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high above anything else to do with the art form.