Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Silence is a universal language. It's like music or painting.

Drawing was a constant in how I expressed myself.

I drew because words were too unpredictable. (5)

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

True creativity often starts where language ends.

The goal of art-making in general is communication.

My website's kind of fun for me. I get to do drawings on that. It's kind of fun.

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.

Wherever there are words, let there be pictures.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

A picture is a poem without words.

Everybody draws when they are little.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

The essence of style is a simple way of saying something complex.

While drawing, I discover what I really want to say.

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

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?

Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.

There's a great adage that says we sing because what we have to express can't be spoken, just using words.

It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.

Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about.

A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.