Whether you like it or not, a child really connects you to that time when everything's new. It's so important - not just for artistic endeavors, but for humanity.
Tim BurtonRead
Don't worry about how you 'should' draw it. Just draw it the way you see it.
Interpretation
Focus on your unique perspective rather than conforming to external expectations.
This quote by Tim Burton encourages artists to embrace their distinct viewpoints and styles instead of worrying about conventional norms or techniques. It highlights the importance of personal expression in the creative process, suggesting that one's individuality is what makes art meaningful and impactful.
In practice
In a speech about embracing creativity at an art gallery.
Whether you like it or not, a child really connects you to that time when everything's new. It's so important - not just for artistic endeavors, but for humanity.
Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It's less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.
I think of Ray Harryhausen's work - I knew his name before I knew any actor or director's names. His films had an impact on me very early on, probably even more than Disney. I think that's what made me interested in animation: His work.
I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.
Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.
If I'd said, 'I'm going to be a director,' it probably wouldn't have happened.
If typography is calling attention to itself, it's taking that attention away from what the words are saying.
Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and walls that carry no weight. That is to say, buildings consisting of skin and bones.
Music is worth doing just because. It doesnβt have to be justified by some political point of view, and itβs kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.
When writing, I'm not thinking about war, even if I'm writing about it. I'm thinking about sentences, rhythm and story. So the focus, when I'm working, even if it's on a story that takes place at war, is not on bombs or bullets. It's on the story.
It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the picture.
I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
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