Box Brown Quotes

I like my drawings to be direct. I don't generally work on them for too long, but that doesn't mean that they are not works in their own right.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

I paint on the ground. I paint with sticks, with big paint cans, and whatever else falls in it. Basically, what I'm doing is capturing unbridled emotion and putting it on canvas. It's like capturing lightning in a bottle.

On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.

The way I put together images is a reactive art.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

I had always done these 3D things that you could walk through. They were always done off the seat of my pants without blueprints or course.

I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced by Norman Rockwell and a couple of the other big boys. That's all I had, that's all I brought.

Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing is always my notation.

I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing.

Collage is not a kitchen sink; it's not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.

Some art needs to be hung on the wall and stared at inquisitively, while other pieces require a more active approach.

Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art, in a way.

I suppose I consider my work a kind of picture making.

An artiste's input, her ability to create dimensions within the given space is very important.

I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors. The thing is done without your knowing it.

I don't work from drawings and colour sketches into a final painting. Painting, I think, today - the more immediate, the more direct - the greater the possibilities of making a direct - of making a statement.

If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.

My drawings are the result of my sculpture.

Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.

All my work begins with drawings. I don’t labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line. I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to ten minutes.