Frank Miller Quotes

What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to be sure that nothing evaded my grasp of it... My objective is to test to what extent my hands already feel what my eyes see.

I still come closest to success with drawing.

Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.

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

I like creating images.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

I don't really picture anyone when I'm drawing. They just become their own completed person with googly eyes.

I've always been a fine artist.

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

Growing up, I enjoyed drawing, but it was always in the service of an idea. I drew all the time, and I enjoyed making.

I used to draw a lot.

I look at the feminine body as a piece of art.

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.

To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.

Drawing is your understanding of form.

It is very bad for (an artist) to talk about how he (creates). It is not the (artist's) province to explain or to run guided tours through the more difficult country of his work. It's none of their business that you had to learn. Let them think you were born that way.

The most natural thing for us is drawing. The characters [in Persepolis] are hand drawn. We're not technical people. We don't know how to type.

The Man of Genius may at the same time be, indeed is commonly, an Artist, but the two are not to be confounded. The Man of Genius,referred to mankind, is an originator, an inspired or demonic man, who produces a perfect work in obedience to laws yet unexplored. The artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected. There has been no man of pure Genius, as there has been none wholly destitute of Genius.

I have never been much of a painter.

I didn't have the time to literally write and draw the strip at the same time.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.