Craig Thompson Quotes

I always knew I wanted it to be illustrated.

I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I am trying to communicate through my writing. My images are like drawings in a science text book.

Line is the most powerful device of drawing.

I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression.

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

I used to draw and do a lot of calligraphy and typography. I'm a big sketcher, too.

I've always been concerned with my sculpture. The drawings I do at night at home to relax. And for a long time, I just gave them to friends or my wife and didn't really show them.

What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to be sure that nothing evaded my grasp of it... My objective is to test to what extent my hands already feel what my eyes see.

Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

I didn't have the time to literally write and draw the strip at the same time.

Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.

I want to make books. I want to take pictures and then write all over the pictures. And then I don't have to say a complete story, because I have the picture, and I have just a word.

All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

The exciting thing about doing art for someone else's story is how I can translate their world through pictures, and that's always a pretty big challenge.

A sketch is just a mini movie.

It's been noted that writing about the production of art is a masquerade or metaphor for writing about writing. This may be true, there are similarities - both the verbal and the visual represent the thing or the concept.

I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.

For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.

Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.

Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

Wherever there are words, let there be pictures.

One of the perks of being a 'New Yorker' cartoonist is that you get to hang around with interesting people. My fellow cartoonists are all interesting, and all highly creative.

When I work, I'm thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equivalent is something that comes afterwards. But it's inconceivable to me that I could experience things and not have them enter into my painting.

What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.