Chris Riddell Quotes

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

I'm not particularly good at doodling. I'll doodle the same face over and over again.

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

Whether it's a computer or a pen drawing, design is about drawing shapes and making physical things.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

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 doodle all the time, even if I'm on the train.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

I made a circle with a smile for a mouth on yellow paper, because it was sunshiny and bright.

I was always doodling house sketches.

The drawing is already partly there - it's in the paper. And the paper is talking before you do.

I'm an artistic kind of person. I draw. I've drawn my whole life. When you have an imaginative mind, I think the artistic form manifests itself in different ways. When I was younger, I used to draw murals for people.

In school, some of my favorite subjects... I mean, art was my favorite subject. I loved art! I used to go during lunch time to the art room and paint or draw or something.

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

You see, anything I imagined, I could draw.

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

I love modeling because I get to see everything that inspires me. Then I go home and sketch.

I love art in general - architecture, anything creative.

I think, as human beings, we all have a fundamental mode, a basic way of relating to the rest of reality, and for me, it's always instinctively been about sound making and trying to extract information, grammar, meaning from sound making. That's been my way of navigating reality that's very personal; a painter might say they make marks or look.

I wish I still had all of my old schoolwork. I'd just have all the sketches around the schoolwork, and none of the schoolwork done. Just sketches all around. I was always doodling something.

I get to draw what I like to draw, basically people hangin' around, and write very humanistic kinds of situations and characters. But I do also like to draw adventure stories - more in terms of drawing them than writing them - and letting my imagination go wild.

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.