David Shields Quotes

I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

The sizes and shapes of the panels have never been important to my stories. It has always been the words and images that drew me in, kind of like watching a movie.

What I can't tell with a photo I will tell with a painting, and what I can't tell with a painting I will tell with a video or text sometimes, et cetera.

Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.

[I have a] way of making narrative sculpture, where first you make a text and out of that text you make objects. [...] I start with a story and then I make sculpture from that story, it's just that the stories become more and more elaborate.

Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its practitioners is in the instrument.

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.

Film for me became how I related to everything else.

If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

I consider all my films experiments.

If I had not been successful as a director, then I'm sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued on 16mm or found a different medium through which to tell them.

For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

I wanted to be a writer as a teen... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an obsession as I realized that I could express myself through the medium. Much later, when I founded Fuseproject in 1999, our slogan became 'design brings stories to life.'

My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.

I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

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.

Picasso took scraps of wallpaper, and instead of using paint and a brush, he used all the existing elements which he made his artwork with.