Quino famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.
When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged. I love trying to render not just the object, but what it has been through.
To draw a tree, to pay such close attention to every aspect of a tree, is an act of reverence not only toward the tree, and toward the earth itself, but also our human connection to it. This is one of the magical things about drawing -- it gives us almost visionary moments of connectedness.
My pencil is like a fencer's foil.
An animator is an actor with a pencil.
Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil.
History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.
You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

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