Richard MacDonald Quotes

I make static art, not dynamic art. That's what I do.

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

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.

But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools.

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

I create art. It's kinda abstract.

I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.

I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.

Fine art is really something I want to get into.

Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.

I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced by Norman Rockwell and a couple of the other big boys. That's all I had, that's all I brought.

All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing is always my notation.

I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.

I love to paint, do ceramics, photography. I got a lot of side things that I like to do.

I'm a trained fine artist. I went to art school from the time I was 5 years old. I was, like, a prodigy out of Chicago. I'd been in national competitions from the age of 14.

I haven't had the opportunity to study visual art, but it was always my first love when it came to artistic expression. I started drawing and experimenting with visual art when I was 5.

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.

I got really into art at school and then went onto art college in California.

Painting on the ground was a cool challenge because you can't just stand back and see what you're doing.

I got out of this school and went to Camberwell College of Arts, a terribly prestigious thing to do. I was there to be a painter. And I sketched so well that, a year later, I was sent to Slade School of Fine Art, one of the great art schools.

Driving a steamroller over an old trumpet or a teaspoon is no more destructive than taking a chisel to a lump of marble already torn from the landscape. But people don't see it that way because marble is considered noble.

I've been painting since I was a kid.

I think of myself as a storytelling, and one of the reasons why people have held my stuff close to them is because it's one thing to draw pretty pictures, and it's another thing to create a story. That's what I've always done, whether it be for advertising clients or commercial clients or comic books. My hand is in there, and I am the storyteller.

Clay is not my surface; everyone knows that.