Pencil Quotes

366 Pencil quotes by 301 unique authors

My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the… — Donald Knuth
When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could… — Oscar Niemeyer
When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing. — Kid Koala
If you do not love what you do, if you are not appropriately grateful for the chance to create something magical each time you sit… — Terry Brooks
I have had the irreplaceable opportunity of learning my profession with the proper tools, the most important of which is not a pencil or a… — Moss Hart
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready. — Eugenio Montale
As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone. — Terry Tempest Williams
I have always been a pencil. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
At night if I'm in a hurry, I'll just put on a lot of mascara and black pencil all the way around the inner rim.… — Brooke Burns
I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around.… — Otis Blackwell
Just get out your magic pencil and erase the cloudy skies, and just draw a picture of me saying, I apologize. — Bill Anderson
Healthcare is growing now at about 10 per cent per annum in the U.S. top line, versus 3 per cent for the economy. As someone… — James Chanos
I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could always get a… — Linda Gray
I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It… — Danny Huston
Since I've been hired to contribute to the storyline of 'Doom 4' I can say what was always true anyway. I'm working. You see, for… — Graham Joyce
I hollowed out, stopped listening to music, never picked up a pencil, started slipping into old habits. All of the vibrancy I used to see… — Gerard Way
If you want to draw comics, you really have to love to draw, as you will be spending many hours sitting down with a pencil… — Dave Gibbons
Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies… — Ogden Nash
At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool… — William Blake
I sometimes begin a drawing with no preconceived problem to solve, with only the desire to use pencil on paper... but as my eye takes… — Henry Moore
What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I am inside my… — Edgar Degas
The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and… — David Hockney
My pencil is like a fencer's foil. — Andrew Wyeth

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