Camille Pissarro Quotes

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 more you draw, the better you get.

What is drawing? How does one get there? It's working one's way through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do. How can one get through that wall? - since hammering on it doesn't help at all. In my view, one must undermine the wall and grind through it slowly and patiently.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

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

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

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

You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

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.

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.

After writing quite a few songs now, I have not a method but a way of being patient with a couple of verses or a certain set of chords. I can match them up quicker now than I used to. The one thing you do improve is songwriting.

I've always liked writing. Even when I was in art school and thought I was going to be a gallery painter, I liked to pair my artwork with writing. And so that naturally led to drawing comics.

I doubt Picasso ever painted a picture in an hour, he took his time, looked at every detail and made sure it was perfect.

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

The biggest lesson I've learned about drawing is that it takes time. Which is really annoying.

If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.

The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.

You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself

I still come closest to success with drawing.