Chalk Quote by Cassandra Clare

“Melissa popped open the clattery little Rotring tin. Pencils, putty rubber, scalpel. She sharpened a 3B, letting the curly shavings fall into the wicker…

— Mark Haddon

“When Frey asked students to draw the creation, the other kids drew animals and Adam and Eve. Caroline covered her paper in black crayon,…

— Christopher Andersen

“the dark, cluttered, polished mahogany splendor of the Sanborns’ Victorian drawing room. Mr. Sanborn wavered. Roark asked, his arm sweeping out at the room…

— Ayn Rand

“This was the wonderful thing about strangers. They were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw whatever you liked on their impressionable surfaces.”

— Janet Fitch

“On the chalkboard was another horrible but familiar sight. Someone had dipped his or her hand into a can of paint and pressed it…

— Michael Buckley

“He picked up the sketchbook, turning it so she could see his work - a gorgeous rendition of a stone bridge they'd passed, surrounded…

— Cassandra Clare

I did take one drawing class in school, but for this book I spent a lot of time talking to painters and asking them…

— Liza Campbell

There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw…

— Chris Van Allsburg

“Wonderful craftsmanship, Simon decided with the expert eye of one who had played enough computer games to know art when he saw it.”

— Sorin Suciu

I must have been very young, but I have a clear memory of drawing on a cream brick wall... with wax crayons.

— Robert Ingpen

“The painters were teenage girls and young women who became friendly during their hours together and entertained themselves during breaks by playing with the…

— Deborah Blum

I was always doodling house sketches.

— Jonathan Knight