Marc Davis Quotes

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

I've got two girls, and they both make beautiful drawings. One of them really has a gift for the way that she colors around certain lines.

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

I went to film school at UT Austin. I learned a lot, and that school's good for puking up all your bad movies early and quick. But ultimately, no one can teach you to be an artist.

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.

I did not have a big view of many designers until I got to high school.

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

My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.

There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.

Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher who is there to move you. It's great. I did a tiny bit in the one school in Paris, and it was wonderful because you'd have a nude taking a crazy position, and you'd have 10 seconds to do a drawing. Then you'd do a one-minute drawing.

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.

I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.

You have to be creative. It's the basics. You can't be Picasso unless you know how to draw a real face; then you can turn it upside down.

It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes. The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one's own hand - that is what is necessary.

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

I knew my focus was going to be somewhere in the arts. I've always painted. I've always sung. I didn't know when or how it was going to happen - or what it was going to be.

My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple that looks like an apple before he paints me one that doesn't. Go where you can go, but start from someplace recognizable.

I wanted to transfer to an art school, and ended up going to the University of Southern California. They had a cinematography school, and I said "Well, that's sort of like photography, maybe that will be interesting." And once I started in that department, I found what it was that I loved and was good at.

The truth is, I don't know how to draw.

The imagination is an innate gift, but it needs refinement and cultivation; this is what the humanities provide.

I started school because I felt like, as a songwriter, I was operating solely on instinct, and I was having a hard time deciding exactly what words I wanted to use. I felt like I wanted to be a writer, and being a curious person, school felt like a way to solve the problems I was having with my own work.

Growing up, I just always doodled, which is the worst word for it. I would just draw things in class, get yelled at by my teachers, get my drawings taken away. That stuff happened all the time.