Sketches Quotes · Page 2

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

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

— Jim Rash

Cheryl's artistically inclined. She draws and sketches, but I don't know about acting.

— Lana Turner

It's really fun to be writing and producing your own sketches. You almost have more control.

— John Mulaney

Sometimes I want to go into Saturday Night Live and rewrite some of the sketches because they're really not that good.

— Jamie Farr

I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches.

— Fred Armisen

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.

— Karl Lagerfeld

I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.

— Zaha Hadid

As part of my research, I read a lot. Then I think and do a lot of sketches. I'll never go to…

— Noma Bar

When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic…

— Gary Dourdan

Those early sketches looked too cartoony; I really wanted to do detailed drawings - I was taking anatomy classes - but unfortunately…

— Joe Shuster

“What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I possibly join them on…

— Jane Austen

Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable. For sketch writers, remember they're called sketches for…

— Tina Fey

I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday, as I have thought of it, as I…

— Grandma Moses

In the show, we have recreated two sketches that my dad had, or pieces that my dad had developed. One that he…

— Brian Henson

I'd been writing sketches since high school, but 'Friends of the People' really taught me about structure - how to wait out…

— Jermaine Fowler

I used to think [Shoji] Hamada never drew, until there was a book by Bernard [Leach] published about his work [Hamada: Potter,…

— Warren MacKenzie

The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry... every reader making out…

— Joshua Reynolds

What I had to do was learn how to tell stories with my pictures. At first I didn't even know what that…

— Marla Frazee

I started writing sketches when I was 13. I liked Vic Reeves, Fry and Laurie, and Paul Merton, and I thought you…

— Noel Fielding

I think I'm one of those guys who was sort of always in comedy. I thought of myself - and other people…

— Andy Daly

Unlike the photography and prints, I never catalogued, kept track of or exhibited the sketches. I sold some occasionally, but never saw…

— Gerhard Richter

Just by nature, I think in comedy. I think in sketches and what have you. In every drama or action movie I've…

— Michael Jai White

In Comme des Garçons, I hardly do any sketches; there's no fittings on bodies, there's no models that come in and say,…

— Rei Kawakubo

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

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

— John Geddes

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

— Paula Rego

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

— Donald Glover

I've always felt, even with sketches, that if you don't care about these people, then it doesn't matter.

— Paula Pell

When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.

— Eric Kripke

I have a lot of sketches and ideas, but when you don't use them, they get stale.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me.

— Trish Stratus

I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' -…

— Jack Whitehall

I wish I still had all of my old schoolwork. I'd just have all the sketches around the schoolwork, and none of…

— Willie Cauley-Stein

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

For a long time I wanted to draw, but I could never get the proportions right. My still life sketches were the…

— Sloane Crosley

I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for…

— Mike Figgis

The victory of the show is in the writing. Coming up with sketches and stand-up bits. The rest is just hitting buttons…

— Neal Brennan

I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse myself, and…

— Aubrey Beardsley