Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Jason Polan

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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Jason Polan

Jason Daniel Polan was an American artist born in Ann Arbor, Michigan who lived and worked in New York City. Polan's illustrations have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Metropolis Magazine, and Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, among others.

Born: 1982
Sometimes I draw with my left hand and I am pretty terrible. The drawings end up just looking like shakier/inconsistent (worse) versions of my right hand drawings. Sometimes I like drawing with my eyes closed.
Sometimes I will draw people and they will move away too quickly for me to finish what I wanted, and it is not enough for me to consider it a drawing of them. I hope I have gotten better at capturing things quicker in a drawing.
One time I covered a wall with 8.5×11 pages of drawings, which made things feel a little bit different in the room. — © Jason Polan
One time I covered a wall with 8.5×11 pages of drawings, which made things feel a little bit different in the room.
I draw rainbows whenever I see them, with my black ink pen. When I have collected enough, I thought I might make a book called Black-and-White Rainbows.
I draw in my sleep (dream of drawing) a lot. I don't think I have ever drawn anything in real life while I was sleeping, though. I do keep a pad near my bed, just in case.
Sometimes when I am drawing outside - when it is cold out it gets difficult (my hand gets slower when it is really cold) because I do not like wearing a glove while drawing, because I cannot feel the paper right.
I liked the movie Splash a lot when I was little. I think we taped it when it was on TV, and then would watch the movie fairly often.
Sometimes I can't draw or take a picture of something, though, if the color is a certain way and the only way to see it is to see it in person.
I like drawing most everything I see, but sometimes the light will hit something in a certain way that I just cannot capture the thing the way I would like with a drawing, so I think taking a picture might be the way to document what I am seeing better.
I made a life-size drawing of King Kong's head which was about eight feet-by- six feet. I tried to measure the head (scaled to other things in the movie I could estimate the size of) that was in the movie in the early '30s, and I liked that I was making something "life-size" that was kind of a fictional thing.
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