Jake Barton Quotes

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

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

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

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

I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.

I create art. It's kinda abstract.

I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

I like shaped things. I like shape in things, and I do overshape things, it's true.

I'm just interested in what makes a photograph.

Architecture is invention.

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw... bringing a blank white canvas to life was fascinating.

In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.

Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients.

I've been taking art classes for a couple of years; I love to draw.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

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

I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful motif. It just doesn't work. I expect my paintings to be strong and surprising.

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.

When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.