Lovely things

Let me draw something.

I also make drawings to help people understand things.

Norma... please paint something cool today.

Please paint something cool.

Everything had to be larger. The next painting was even bigger.

And eventually, it just makes them stop playing with it, or draw, you know, they draw penises and things like that.

My mother said, Well let's do a picture of something else.

What's in my head. Art's an abstraction, not a picture book.

This is not animation or anything like this.

Pretty awful, pretty criminal.

In general... I paint things that are hidden behind things.

Everywhere you look, there's something to paint.

I'm burning my bridges, my friend.

Do your realize, Theo, that what I'm doing is new?

There's always something or someone hidden behind the tree.

Comics is a kind of call and response in which the artist gives you something to see within the panels, and then gives you something to imagine between the panels.

Or honeycombs, or something.

I can't wait to see the things you did in Brittany.

Is that what you do when you overload your brush?

They tell us things we don't know about ourselves.

And this hallucinatory drawing shows you everything you see in this drawing is Iluvatar.

And I made some sketches on napkins little boxes and Morandi like things that I used to do.

All my creations really start on small drawings, which I have thousands of, and it's my way of just thinking.

There's so much to learn, not only about drawing, but people.

And yeah, it's the sort of thing you produce when you're doodling on the phone.

What is it about animation, graphics, illustrations, that create meaning?

Whatever passes, make a mark. The man on the horse is for cavalry.

Look, Paul, when I painted The Night Café, I tried to show evil.

And the way I sold livestock jobs is I showed off my drawings, I showed off pictures of things.

If there's one thing I despise, it's emotionalism in painting.

But unfortunately, one of the things kids liked to draw was cartoon characters.

They're clumsy, most of them, but I can see what you're getting at.

Sometimes editors would tell their cartoonists to draw what they wanted to see, and the guy has to feed his family, right?

Online drawing tools you've probably seen a lot of them.

Then I was telling my assistant, I don't see anything. Can you paint it?

Then I started to get a little more realistic and I have to start drawing the stuff.

If I'm to be anything as a painter, I've got to break through the iron wall... between what I feel and what I can express.

And, approaching a building from a distance, you don't see too much you get a little closer, and you arrive at a nice little composition that might remind you of a Mondrian or a Diebenkorn or something.

If you're telling me you're going to be the great developer of the map of the human genome, you'd better know what a human genome is.

An architect who's drawing them with a pen and a paper would probably take months, or it would take even a year to draw all the sections, all of the elevations, you can only create something like this through an algorithm.

These things resonate with us, and, if you think about blogs, you think of high art blogs, the history paintings about, you know, all biblical stories, and then you have this.

Things, things. Things that can be bought.

What are you talking about?

So, the different elements of comics, like pictures and words, and the different symbols and everything in between that comics presents are all funneled through the single conduit of vision.