Mark Parker Quotes

I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.

There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

I doodle all the time, even if I'm on the train.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

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

Draw what you see.

When you're drawing something, you kind of run a movie in your head. You might close your eyes or stare into the distance and kind of see a movie unfolding and, you know, grab a certain moment or think, 'Oh, yeah, that's when we need just the point that he appears around the corner but just as she's getting into the car,' you know?

Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.

For 'Picture This,' I wanted it to be a drawing book that didn't have any instructions about drawing, beyond the real simple stuff you'd find like in a Bazooka bubblegum wrapper, or in 'Highlights' magazine. I just wanted it to be feelings about looking and seeing and pictures.

I have a visual imagination.

I was always doodling house sketches.

I'm an artistic kind of person. I draw. I've drawn my whole life. When you have an imaginative mind, I think the artistic form manifests itself in different ways. When I was younger, I used to draw murals for people.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

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.

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

The longer I look at something, the more my imagination churns and I can find somewhere to put it.

My wife will go, 'You know, you're drawing a shoe right now.' I do that all the time.

When I draw, I always recall my mindset when I was a child.

I'm a visual person, a conceptual person.

Color is just in a small area of our vision, and the rest we add with the mind.