Sketches Quotes · Page 2

Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.

— Paula Rego

“...these vignettes I sketch for you - what are they? watercolors ..yes and dreams blurred with tears ...”

— John Geddes

A lot of my sketches came from thoughts, and I always just wanted to act them out.

— Donald Glover

Simon Critchley's 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - it's a quick thumbnail sketches of philosophers through the ages.

— David Benioff

Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.

— Paul Mellon

I have a million funny ideas for sketches, but I don't want to spend tens of thousands of dollars shooting them.

— Gavin McInnes

I love doing sketches, but I don't relish being by myself. That's not something I'm used to doing.

— Jane Lynch

Thomson's small oil sketches of the last years palpitate and throb. They are as direct in attack as a punch in the…

— Harold Town

Fabio Celon did send me pages as he progressed, both in black and white and some color samples as well. It was…

— Khaled Hosseini

When people quote sketches to me, half the time I don't know what they're talking about so I have to sort of…

— John Cleese

Me and my older brother used to do little stupid sketches from a young age, so it was always there but I…

— Katy Wix

I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I…

— Frank Gehry

The kitchen was bright, cheerful yellow, the walls decorated with framed chalk and pencil sketches Simon and Rebecca had done in grade…

— Cassandra Clare

It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the…

— Tomas Transtromer

Scene by scene, you can't help being impressed by 'Mean Girls;' it's like a group of sketches linked by a theme, with…

— Elvis Mitchell

Remember that film 'Sliding Doors,' when John Hannah woos Gwyneth Paltrow by reciting Monty Python sketches? I can tell you now that…

— Stephen Merchant

My acting has always been in the world of comedy, but in my writing, other than writing sketches, I really am drawn…

— Jim Rash

For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of benevolent deity.…

— Sarah MacLean

“Ned waved him off and studied the map in front of him. That sense of unease remained even after Harcroft had taken…

— Courtney Milan

The abstract, especially in those rough sketches, is very important to me, perhaps because of my advertising background, where layout is so…

— Tom of Finland

Simon's walls were covered in what looked like pages ripped from a comic book, but when I squinted, I realized they were…

— Kelley Armstrong

The first day was memorable for me. I walked into this studio with these giant eyes, slowly met everybody and got to…

— Kyle Schmid

There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has... In your sketches keep the first…

— William Morris Hunt

“Sketches are social things. They are lonely outside the company of other sketches and related reference material. They are lonely if they…

— Bill Buxton

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

— John Singer Sargent

I love designers sketches, they're like poetry. A vision of an idea intended to make someone feel wonderful.

— Dawn O'Porter

I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as 'The Royal Variety Show,' performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.

— Shirley Eaton

Sometimes people just write me into sketches because they think it'll be funny that I'm wearing a blond wig or something.

— Sarah Sherman

Writing sketches, you're also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.

— Jim Rash

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.

— William Merritt Chase

I usually use quick sketches that I accumulated from the figure drawing classes I once instructed.

— Frank Bruno

Writing sketches, youre also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.

— Jim Rash

'SCTV' was the concept of a group ensemble doing satirical things. 'Saturday Night Live's sketches were broader than ours, more universal.

— Joe Flaherty

In the old days, you had to wait for people to give you money to go and make something. Now, you can…

— Hugh Dennis

“The obituary writers drew their incomplete sketches, touring through his life like travelers to England who do not ever see swans, sheep,…

— Mark Helprin

Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction…

— Marc Davis

I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it…

— Harland Williams

Then we tried to come up with ideas for the sketches, and then, when we actually shot the movie, we really just…

— Joel Hodgson

I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with…

— Hari Kondabolu

Some of my work is very instinctive, some of my favourite things I've ever done are just two minute sketches, nothing is…

— Danny Fox