Lynda Barry Quotes

When I was young, I drew as often as I wrote.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

Lose your inhibitions about drawing and just do it.

But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.

I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.

Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.

When it comes to the camera, I can do my thing. But I'm bashful.

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.

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

The writing process isn't something I'm in love with. I'm an illustrator who writes.

I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I am trying to communicate through my writing. My images are like drawings in a science text book.

I still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis.

I've always been super expressive, and I've always liked to express myself any way I can.

I've always been shy and that's partly why I chose a life behind the lens. I like people to look at my work and hopefully it speaks for itself.

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

I've always liked writing. Even when I was in art school and thought I was going to be a gallery painter, I liked to pair my artwork with writing. And so that naturally led to drawing comics.

Drawing was a constant in how I expressed myself.

I have sketched since a young age, so there's always been an artistic side, a visual side to my personality.

If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.

We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.

I was extremely shy. And I simply didn't know how to go about it. It seemed a lot easier to write than to make films. All I needed was a pencil and a piece of paper, whereas filmmaking was something I had no access to.

I was always really shy. That's why being in front of cameras like this is uncomfortable. I found that when I was a kid, I would hide behind playing pretend. That's when I would come out of my shell. I would dress up as an old man or something and go out onto the street with my mom. I would come out of my shell that way. So I ended up stumbling into acting. It was the one thing that I found a passion for.

More important than having a romance with the object that I'm drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I am making.

For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.

What can make your work interesting is as much who you are, as how you draw.