Jim Davis Quotes

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

I love producing! It's so much fun to start with a blank canvas and create the picture you want to create and see it all come together.

Growing up, I enjoyed drawing, but it was always in the service of an idea. I drew all the time, and I enjoyed making.

The stressful time is the blank page at the beginning. When you're starting to see things being made flesh, and you're able to respond to that flesh, that's really exciting.

Don't think it, ink it.

I start a picture and I finish it.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

I have been drawing and creating visual works my entire life, as long as I can remember.

You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

For me, I get a part of an idea here and a little bit of an idea there, and then finally it accumulates into a movie.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

To some extent, I draw on what I see around me; in other places, I imagine what I write.

I get ideas from everywhere: movies, books, movies, nature - it comes into my brain, it sits there for a while, and it starts coming back out.

'Fowl Space' was a lovechild of boredom. While in class, two of the developers started passing designs back and forth. Somewhere in the middle of all that ink and crumpled paper, a chicken in a space helmet was born and thus we have 'Fowl Space.'

The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be wonderful if there was a projector inside my eye that and it could just put the idea on the screen for people to see.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

If I don't have a model in front of me, I don't have an idea.

Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.

My sketchbooks are usually just a line on one page or a circle, which to most people must be totally meaningless. But to me, they are very important to the thing I am working on.