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The planets are never the same twice, they're always different, so they could compare the markings I had drawn with their current photographs and they knew that I was drawing what I was really seeing and it wasn't copied from somewhere. -- Clyde Tombaugh
For 'Picture This,' I wanted it to be a drawing book that didn't have any instructions about drawing, beyond the real simple stuff you'd find like in a Bazooka bubblegum wrapper, or in 'Highlights' magazine. I just wanted it to be feelings about looking and seeing and pictures. -- Lynda Barry
Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form. -- Edgar Degas
Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing. -- Brenda Ueland
I think when I'm drawing, I'm seeing what's happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in my head. -- Brian Selznick

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