Character Quote by Karen Russell

Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.

— Anonymous

Writers get embarrassed sometimes in talking about how much fun writing can be, but drafting is often really enjoyable. Often, you're tumbling in the…

— Karen Russell

It’s about reaching that moment of pure ecstasy when a drawing just happens. Where every move you make with your hand and every thought…

— Jamie Hewlett

“Imagination is tapping into the subconscious in a form of open play. That is why art or music therapy, which encourages a person to…

— Phil Cheney

Sometimes I'm drawing onto a computer directly, sometimes I'm drawing on paper , so I can't really talk about drafts. It's just like having…

— Art Spiegelman

The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with…

— Twyla Tharp

Usually it's a pretty calculated, sustained, and slow process by which you develop something. The effect can be one of spontaneity, but that's part…

— Richard Estes

Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it.

— Dong Kingman

Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the…

— Pablo Picasso

You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back…

— Edwin Land

It becomes an extension of your imagination to make something tangible and concrete.

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

“I often don’t have a clear idea of what I am going to be drawing when I start, unless it is for a very…

— Alan Lee