Sketching Quotes · Page 2

Drawing takes time. A line has time in it

— David Hockney

You can never do too much drawing.

— Tintoretto

I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Stop sketching and start building.

— Dennis Crowley

In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

— Pablo Picasso

As writers, we are sketching people all the time when we write fiction.

— Rajkumar Hirani

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

— David Hockney

I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.

— Amandla Stenberg

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

— Balthus

“Now relax, think positively and begin --- the smile of success awaits you.”

— Claudia Nice

I have learnt sketching, drawing, singing, dancing, rifle shooting, paragliding.

— Divyanka Tripathi

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

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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

— John Singer Sargent

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

“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

Sometimes the very best of all summer books is a blank notebook. Get one big enough, and you can practice sketching the…

— Michael Dirda

I'll always have acting. But then if I had to choose something else it'd probably be singing or dancing - if I…

— Elle Fanning

I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an…

— Norman Foster

In one gallery they actually had a notice which said No Sketching. How obnoxious! I said, How do you think these things…

— David Hockney

I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all…

— Vera Wang

I became interested in photography when I was sharing a studio with Walker Evans, and found my own sketching was inadequate.

— Ben Shahn

“I think drawing is a celebration and connection to my childhood. To draw in public is to open yourself to people with…

— Bill McDonough

“She sketched songbirds when she was supposed to be minding her lessons, and she sketched church mice when she was meant to…

— Tessa Dare

“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 sat up straight and looked down at my pad, and then I realized: I'd been sketching you, really. I mean, I'd…

— Steve Brezenoff

I always carry a sketchbook around with me, and I sketch whenever I can... I might be in a financial review and…

— Mark Parker

[While designing] I'm mixing two lines of thought really: me as a designer for women and then me as a man. At…

— Christian Louboutin

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play…

— Anonymous

The poetic beauty of Davy's mind never seems to have left him. To that circumstance I would ascribe the distinguishing feature in…

— Davies Gilbert

“In the late afternoon, Lily approached Ian as he reclined on the couch sketching. “I’ve got something to ask you,” she said,…

— Shannon MacLeod

“Learning to like something new takes longer than you’d think, however. Your brain doesn’t see it as important information if it doesn’t…

— Anonymous

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

— The Church Fathers

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

— Bill Buxton

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

— Becky G

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

— Ben Shahn

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

— Bill Peet

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

— Walter Isaacson

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

— Rian Johnson

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

— Arshile Gorky

I used to make all my clothes when I was in Southern Death Cult [the first incarnation of The Cult]. I still…

— Ian Astbury