Pencil Quotes

366 Pencil quotes by 301 unique authors

And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such. — Andrew Wyeth
I do not know if you bridle your pen, but when my pencil moves, it is necesary to let it go, or - crash!... nothing… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
I had placed my stick on the table, as I do every evening. It had been specially made to suit my height, to enable me… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you can just pick… — Forest Whitaker
There's such a thing as too much point on a pencil. — H. Allen Smith
When money enters in - then, for a price, I become a liar - and a good one I can be whether with pencil or… — Edward Weston
When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of… — Alberto Giacometti
No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of paper and a… — John Newman
The most interesting studio work, and perhaps the most practicable, is painting from pencil sketches and notes... It ensures the elimination of all facts but… — Walter J. Phillips
Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again. — Walter J. Phillips
I've found from years of trial that the only way I can work is to make sketches in pencil from Nature, purely as reference material… — E. J. Hughes
Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines. — E. J. Hughes
The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches… — E. J. Hughes
I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke. — Yves Saint Laurent
Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil. — Clive Thompson
Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it's empowering generations to… — Adam Braun
My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have… — Adam Braun
In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will… — Vincent Van Gogh
One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started… — Bruce Dickinson
People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a… — Walt Disney
I'm naturally a mousy blonde, so I dye my hair, and my eyebrows would disappear if I didn't get through at least a pencil a… — Beth Ditto
The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free. — James Dyson
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip. — Jon Bon Jovi
When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to… — Michio Kaku

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