Jeff Kinney Quotes

I have been drawing all my life.

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

I drew as a child, they tell me. I can vaguely remember doing it. And then I drew again in the late years at high school.

I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.

We show people that anybody can paint a picture that they're proud of. It may never hang in the Smithsonian, but it will certainly be something that they'll hang in their home and be proud of. And that's what it's all about.

Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.

I've been drawing since I was five years old.

I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.

Over the years I always did some water colors, and I did a series of pictures of drawings. I always did it during a period of time that was slow in the photo business, but in essence it was always frustrating because I'd get started, and then it would be time to get back to work and I wouldn't get anywhere with the painting.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.

I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.

Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than I was a musician growing up. You struggle to see things and translate an image through your hands to a canvas.

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much.

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.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing - without the traditional interruption of academic training.

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

I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.

I've been painting and making things since I was little.

I still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis.

I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.

If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.

I was taught to draw very well when I was in school at Boston. And I grew to enjoy drawing so much that I never stopped.