Jeffrey Brown Quotes

I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love to mess around with these tools and objects, I have minimal artistic skills.

I'm partial to a Muji recycled-paper sketch book and a Sharpie ultrafine marker.

I use a quill pen dipped in India ink. I also like Faber-Castell brush pens and Pigma Micron pens. And I work on Duo-Shade board.

I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.

I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

I use the old Strathmore vellum surface paper, which is the best paper you can get in the Western world for ink line drawing. It has a good, hard surface.

A pen is different from the pad, the key, moving your fingers across a screen. I like both. I like to work on sketchbooks, big old white sketch paper. I like how that feels, and I like to put different media on it. Then there's the phone, smartphone, iPad: It's the new page, and it's not the same page anymore.

I like to write and draw everything with sharpies. I even got one with my own name on it!

I drew a lot. I always had sketchbooks. My parents were really great about any gift-giving holiday - birthdays, Hanukkah, Christmas - it was always art supplies for my brother and I.

For a while, I was drawing on good paper, but now I've gone back to the bad stuff. I put matte medium on it. If you put matte medium on it, it seals up, so it doesn't really matter.

I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.

I sketch while I'm on set, and it's a way for me to record all of the locations I've been to. I don't keep a diary but a sketchbook.

I paint daily with watercolors on 5-by-7-inch pads that are small enough for me to take them everywhere.

I love paint. I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil paint. I love the smell of turpentine and I like that world of oil paint very, very, very much.

I want to show how much fun you can have drawing... parents and children can draw together as a wonderful shared activity.

I use a little brush only for really small details. Over the years, I've started to use a much larger brush.

I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.

I've been taking art classes for a couple of years; I love to draw.

My studio is not arty. It doesn't smell of turpentine, and I'm not knee-high in paper.

I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off.

To me, art supplies are always okay to buy.

I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas.

When you are little, you will draw pictures for no reason.

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.

I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calendars, I had no art paper, so I took whatever else I could.