Jake Barton Quotes

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

I've always had an interest in design, and I have always loved creating things.

I love creating things. I love making things.

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.' Now everyone makes something, and those who make things on a canvas with a frame, they're called artists. Formerly, they were called craftsmen, a term I prefer. We're all craftsmen, in civilian or military or artistic life.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

You should make something. You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what it is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, 'I did that.'

I wouldn't know how to design. I couldn't even if I wanted to, for I can't draw, and a pair of scissors in my hands becomes a dangerous weapon.

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

I like to create.

I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.

All I've ever wanted to do is design and make; it's what I love doing.

I like creating new things.

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.

Lumped in as a hobby, I don't really like drawing pictures all that much, but thinking of it as work, it's the greatest.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

We're pretty insane about art direction.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

I think fashion and artistry go hand in hand.

I enjoy making and creating things.

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.