Sketching Quotes

Sketching Quote of the day

Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which I imagined myself piloting.

Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often published my pictorial works, before the seventieth year none is worthy.

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.

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

In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

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

Drawing takes time. A line has time in it

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

Sketching on a regular basis requires you to pay close attention to the visual world around you. With practice, you begin to see things you never noticed before.

Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as such, it should be as free, and happy, as a song in the bath.

The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art.

To my father, art had no restrictions. He was a true 'American Primitive.' He greatly enjoyed sketching and photography, carrying a camera with him whenever he could.

I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen

Sketching is a continuing source of learning rather than a string of performances.

You can never do too much drawing.

Stop sketching and start building.

I'll always have acting. But then if I had to choose something else it'd probably be singing or dancing - if I had to. Or maybe, like, designer, like sketching designs.

Draw lines - draw a lot of lines

My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketching to sampling and fitting.

Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.

Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work... things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building.

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

With pencil there is a tendency to be timid, either using very faint lines or erasing bad lines... Line sketching tends to emphasize the structure of a drawing rather than the nuances of media.

When I was a child of four I wasn't really drawing like a child, I wasn't sketching as a child. I would sketch and I was using perspective, the good relationship of the subject.

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

Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile, and it will do you a world of good.

I used to make all my clothes when I was in Southern Death Cult [the first incarnation of The Cult]. I still make things to wear on stage and I am involved with sketching, choosing fabric, cutting.

Stop sketching. Start building.

Few people know that I am also an artist; I truly enjoy sketching and drawing.

I would like to be known as an artist. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. Im interested in all of those things.

I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.

In one gallery they actually had a notice which said No Sketching. How obnoxious! I said, How do you think these things got on the walls if there was no sketching?

I live opposite an amazing wood in London, and you can usually find me sitting there for hours and sketching. Sometimes the icon or symbol leads me to the face, but usually it's the other way around.

It is a matter mostly of having the time to spare from my finished paintings to put in on travelling and sketching out of doors.

How do the stems connect to the roots?' 'Where is the mist coming from?' 'Why does one tree seem darker than another?' These questions are implicitly asked and answered in the process of sketching.

While perspective is a handy device to construct imagined spaces, it is not useful, and possibly detrimental, to sketching existing environments.

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

I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.

If you wish to make good art, then you must believe you already do. Otherwise, you will never be good enough.

It was amazing what an hour with her sketchpad could do for her mood. She was sure that the lines she drew with her black marker were going to save her years of worry lines in the future.

An art prodigy of the 21st century has yet to be crowned. Or have they?

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