Art imitating Life

Feeling good about yourself? Ask a kid to draw a picture of you. Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on walls. No artist tolerates reality. Procrastination, the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Almost every cartoonist, when he’s sitting down to draw a funny face, if you watch him closely, his mouth is gonna curl to the expression he’s drawing. But when I write a story – I know it’s going to sound ridiculous and infantile – I would, in a way, start living it. 

Art is anything you can get away with. Imaginations are more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. 

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out. Learning to draw is really a matter of learning how to see correctly and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye. 

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist when we grow up. There’s no healthier drug than creativity. Creativity is nothing but a mind set free. An art attack? The overwhelming feeling of having so many creative ideas at once and not enough time to do them. 

Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them. An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye. We don’t make mistakes, just little happy accidents. To be an artist is to believe in life. 

Life, is the art of drawing without an eraser. 

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