Nathan Sawaya Quotes

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

I am an artist who works with Lego.

We don't design by calculator or by demographics or anything like that. We really are a group of creative, sensitive people. We have our charmed little world where we get to make things. We're really lucky.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

I love being creative in all forms.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

I like creating images.

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

I don't really picture anyone when I'm drawing. They just become their own completed person with googly eyes.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.

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

I felt I was painting with a Popsicle.

I like to stay artistic. So I always like to draw or write.

The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.

I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes.

I've done my own videos, I do my own styling, so I feel like I've just always been a visual artist... I was one of those kids who wanted to make my own clothes and take pictures of everything. Everything inspired me, and everything felt like art around me.

I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.

That word 'fantasy' - I hardly ever hear it in the world of design. And that's very strange. You should hear it a lot. I think fantasy is a very important value that designers and artists should bring to the world.

I enjoy being creative.

My lens and my personality, it's just fluid. The art isn't just in one place.