Matt Groening Quotes

I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.

I have a bunch of fan art. I love it.

I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

I kept on writing and illustrating, for this is what I did well because I loved it.

I've loved art for more than 30 years.

Creativity is down the tube. And people give a lot of lip service to individuality. I know they all appreciate it, but they all say they would like to do it, but they don't want to work at it, and it doesn't come out of the sky.

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

The world can make an actor feel overly important. What I do isn't hard work. It's not ditch digging - which I have done, for one summer. Of course there are times when your fuel tank's low, but even on the hardest days, you are on a film set. You are doing something creative.

When I'm hard at work, when I'm deep in it, there is no other feeling. For me, my work is at all times building a nation out of thin air. It is manning the troops. It is painting a canvas. It is hitting every high note. It is running a marathon. It is being Beyonce. And it is all of those things at the same time.

I've seen fan art from readers that is professional-grade in quality.

Kids would come up to me after concerts and give me drawings they've made of violins or, you know, landscapes with a violin floating in it or some sketch of a concert or a portrait of me.

I like to see things that take a lot of time and effort and passion. Which I feel like 'Skins' has.

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

Becoming an artist is not empirical; it's not about hard work. You have to put the work in, but that doesn't mean you're going to make it.

The most important factors for any artist, is the honesty towards one's craft, hard work and passion that guides them.

You keep your head down and you work and work, and all of a sudden you pick your head up and people are receiving it the same way we're sending it. They're thinking the same things that I'm thinking about the show.

I'm very appreciative, I'm feeling very blessed and I like to live in the moment so any person I meet, I start to leave my mark. As far as my work goes, I just hope that people like it when I do it. I certainly give my best and try to learn as much as I can while I'm working or studying for a role.

The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making. Yet pleasure in the work can’t be achieved unless you know you have put all of your strength into it and have done your best to make it come alive. A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.

The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Steep yourself in your subject, work like hell, and love, honor and obey your hunches.