--- title: "1 Barns Quotes By Winsor McCay" description: "1 Barns quotes by Winsor McCay. Plus more from Winsor McCay and more Barns sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/480/winsor-mccay-47882_art_the-principle-factor-in-my-success-has-b_202754.jpg" --- > [The principle factor in my success has been an absolute desire to draw constantly. I never decided to be an artist. Simply, I couldn't stop myself from drawing. I drew for my own pleasure. I never wanted to know whether…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winsor-mccay/the-principle-factor-in-my-success-has-been-an-absolute-desire-to/) [Winsor McCay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winsor-mccay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/480/winsor-mccay-47882_art_the-principle-factor-in-my-success-has-b_202754.jpg) ## More by Winsor McCay > [“Nemo suggested that it might be some monster giant but his papa called him a "rattlebrain" and ordered him to pacify his mama who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winsor-mccay/nemo-suggested-that-it-might-be-some-monster-giant-but-his-papa/) [Winsor McCay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winsor-mccay/) > [The principle factor in my success has been an absolute desire to draw constantly. I never decided to be an artist. Simply, I couldn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winsor-mccay/the-principle-factor-in-my-success-has-been-an-absolute-desire-to/) [Winsor McCay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winsor-mccay/) > [“I'm lost! Mama! I'm lost! Oh! I'm lost! You are not lost, Nemo. Go back to sleep and behave, hear?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winsor-mccay/i-m-lost-mama-i-m-lost-oh-i-m-lost-you-are-not-lost-nemo-go-back-to/) [Winsor McCay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winsor-mccay/) > [Three Scotsmen of the clan McKay were looking for a fourth member to fight four members of the Irish clan Magee ... 'I'm not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winsor-mccay/three-scotsmen-of-the-clan-mckay-were-looking-for-a-fourth-member-to/) [Winsor McCay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winsor-mccay/) > [I hope and dream the time will come when serious artists will make marvelous pictures that will love and live in life-like manner and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winsor-mccay/i-hope-and-dream-the-time-will-come-when-serious-artists-will-make/) [Winsor McCay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winsor-mccay/) > [Any idiot that wants to make a couple of thousand drawings for a hundred feet of film is welcome to join the club.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winsor-mccay/any-idiot-that-wants-to-make-a-couple-of-thousand-drawings-for-a/) [Winsor McCay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winsor-mccay/) > [Animation should be an art…what you fellows have done with it, making it into a trade…not an art, but a trade…bad luck.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winsor-mccay/animation-should-be-an-art-what-you-fellows-have-done-with-it-making/) [Winsor McCay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winsor-mccay/) > [Eighteen thousand miles from the moon is some slide, but I'll get up there again some way!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winsor-mccay/eighteen-thousand-miles-from-the-moon-is-some-slide-but-i-ll-get-up/) [Winsor McCay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winsor-mccay/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/barns/winsor-mccay/#itemlist", "name": "1 Barns Quotes By Winsor McCay", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The principle factor in my success has been an absolute desire to draw constantly. 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