Jeffrey Dean Morgan Quotes

I have a BFA in illustration.

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

Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music.

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

I studied graphic design originally. I used to like drawing, and I was quite into technical drawing. I was always interested in the visual medium, but I thought I was going to be an architect or something like that, but it's quite a lonely job.

My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books.

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

I'm an artistic kind of person. I draw. I've drawn my whole life. When you have an imaginative mind, I think the artistic form manifests itself in different ways. When I was younger, I used to draw murals for people.

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

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

I was an arts student. I did graphic design. Being an artist, I did a lot of paintings. I have always had that creative side to me.

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.

I still come closest to success with drawing.

The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.

Line is the most powerful device of drawing.

The most natural thing for us is drawing. The characters [in Persepolis] are hand drawn. We're not technical people. We don't know how to type.

I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.

Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.

I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.

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

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.

I have an architecture degree; that's what my college degree is in. And that sucked. I started doing Web and CD-ROM development really early on, and then that grew into being an art director and doing advertising work.

I wanted to get into art. I did some neon stuff. I worked in, not computer-generated, but computer manipulation of pictures.