Robert Mankoff Quotes

The art of drawing is the art of omission.

An artist of understanding and experience can show more of his great power and art in small things roughly and rudely done, than many another in a great work. A man may often draw something with his pen on a half sheet of paper in one day . . . . and it shall be fuller of art and better than another's great work whereon he hath spent a whole year's careful labor.

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

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

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.

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

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

I don't think that I'm over his influence but they probably don't look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures.

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

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.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

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've been drawing since I was five years old.

I've been painting since I was a kid.

When I draw, I always recall my mindset when I was a child.

I know I draw without taking my pen off the page. I just keep going, and that my drawings I think of them as scribbles. I don't think they mean anything to anybody except to me, and then at the end of the day, the end of the project, they wheel out these little drawings and they're damn close to what the finished building is and it's the drawing.

Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.

I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.

I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.

I sketch the faces upside down because it's like drawing from the left side of the brain or the right side of the brain. I never took an art lesson in my life.

A colourist makes his presence known even in a simple charcoal drawing.

Try to distill the character of your subject. Understand how he moves, thinks, acts. It's difficult to put into words. Consider each drawing as a problem that did not exist before, and then try to solve that problem to the best of your ability. That i what caricature is all about

All of you here have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone.

I think the best thing I learned from drawing comics is that it's a great exercise in concision.