The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
In our travels, we have come across many equations--math for understanding the universe, for making music, for mapping stars, and also for… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such. — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I may not be the strongest guy or the most well armed, but you can put me in a room with a… — John Milius Copy Share Image
A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I know of no painless process for giving birth to a picture idea. When I must produce, I retire to a quiet… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
As soon as you take out a pencil and paper with the Indians, you're one thing to them - an anthropologist -… — Ruth Beebe Hill Copy Share Image
It became a habit of mine never to leave the house without a pencil in my pocket. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
The man who has learned that three plus one are four doesn't have to go through a proof of that assertion with… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The most interesting studio work, and perhaps the most practicable, is painting from pencil sketches and notes... It ensures the elimination of… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Well, maybe it was just that I wasn't going to like anybody because I had to work and I had to explain… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
When I was in architecture school, rather than giving us drafting boards and t-squares and lead pencils and stuff they gave us… — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image
I sometimes begin a drawing with no preconceived problem to solve, with only the desire to use pencil on paper... but as… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
