Artist Quote by William Merritt Chase

The most interesting studio work, and perhaps the most practicable, is painting from pencil sketches and notes... It ensures the elimination of all facts…

— Walter J. Phillips

The kitchen was bright, cheerful yellow, the walls decorated with framed chalk and pencil sketches Simon and Rebecca had done in grade school. Rebecca…

— Cassandra Clare

In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft drawings, and I got a…

— Jeff Kinney

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished…

— Vladimir Nabokov

When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.

— Walter Darby Bannard

When painting a landscape it is desirable to walk through the clumps and around the bushes, around the trees, the houses and the rocks.…

— John French Sloan

The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary…

— E. J. Hughes

I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious,…

— Frank Gehry

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

— Andy Daly

“The stranger drew the curtains round the bed, took up the light, and inspected the apartment. The walls of both rooms were hung with…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“A half-empty bottle of vodka sat on the bedside table, and his sketchbook was open on the king-size bed. Several sketches, only three of…

— Amelia C. Gormley