Sketching Quotes · Page 2

Drawing takes time. A line has time in it

— David Hockney

I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene.

— Ian Mckellen

I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.

— Vincent Van Gogh

You can never do too much drawing.

— Tintoretto

Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.

— Fernando Pessoa

I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.

— Tony Gilroy

I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.

— Karl Lagerfeld

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

— Lynn Abbey

I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen

— Frederick Franck

Sketching is a continuing source of learning rather than a string of performances.

— Paul Laseau

I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.

— Ben Shahn

I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.

— Becky G

Drawing is the only thing I've found in which I can lose myself completely. I love it. It started as something that…

— Peter Capaldi

When I was a child of four I wasn't really drawing like a child, I wasn't sketching as a child. I would…

— Arman

Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often…

— Hokusai

Making movies wasn't really an immediate thought, where I was raised. I was going to be a lawyer, and I thought I…

— Kevin Munroe

It is a matter mostly of having the time to spare from my finished paintings to put in on travelling and sketching…

— E. J. Hughes

My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketching to sampling and fitting.

— Nicole Richie

“He ached for creation. For life to somehow rise from the drawings in his sketching book. For his own energy, his own…

— C.S. Richardson

Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as…

— Mervyn Levy

“So that drawing." Ian extended and arm to full length and pulled down three ceramic bowls from the top shelf of our…

— Megan Squires

I'm sketching ideas. They're a completely different way of working than working with editors at a magazine where you're always working with…

— Max Vadukul

I spend as much time as I can sketching from nature, Dartmoor contains such a rich variety of landscape, as many boulders,…

— Alan Lee

I've learned I'm rarely able to stay at home and not work. If I try to 'just sit on my couch for…

— Kathryn Minshew

“As her dreams intensified, the red-haired girl became so real to Olivia that she found herself absentmindedly sketching her image during the…

— Hazel Gaynor

I managed to potter along tolerably well in the morning, sitting in the sun and sketching the old buildings... but in the…

— Howard Pyle

After sketching his program for the scientific revolution that he foresaw, Bacon ends his account with a prayer: "Humbly we pray that…

— Freeman Dyson

When I was thinking about what we could do in terms of what production values of Broadway might be able to add…

— Alex Timbers

“Iris lay there, her eyes closed, her golden hair spread on the pillow, half-turned toward him. She must've been exhausted to have…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

“From around the age of six, I had the habit of sketching from life. I became an artist, and from fifty on…

— Hokusai

“Wozniak could make one of the computers he had been sketching on”

— Walter Isaacson

I always begin my stories as experiments - on large yellow tablets - a mixture of writing and sketching.

— Bill Peet

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

— Arshile Gorky

I really spend as long as I can sketching everything out and working on the structure before I sit down to type…

— Rian Johnson

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

— John Singer Sargent

Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

The fundamental thing about sketching is that it isabout asking not telling

— Bill Buxton

“sketching out, like an architect, the plan of salvation to those that pleased Him.”

— The Church Fathers

I have so much music that I do. Just like how a visual artist is always sketching something but they might not…

— Erykah Badu