Study your subject through half-closed eyes before starting to draw - you'll find that the lights and darks are exaggerated and easier to identify.

- Stan Smith

When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.

- Stan Smith

Spaces between the forms, or the negative shapes, play just as great a role as the positives and they enable you to check the accuracy of your drawin…

- Stan Smith

In the real world there are many tones, from white at one extreme, through a large number of medium tones to black at the other extreme. To achieve a…

- Stan Smith

Laughter is infectious, like small pox or gay.

- Stan Smith

If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it.

- Stan Smith

God pays twice as much attention on Christmas, like the media when a white kid goes missing.

- Stan Smith

Hey, all I was trying to do was keep my country and my family safe!

- Stan Smith

Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist.

- Stan Smith