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Sketching Quotes

1.
Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
Henri Matisse

Authors on Sketching Quotes: Paul Laseau Dennis Crowley Karl Lagerfeld Vincent Van Gogh David Hockney Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Pablo Picasso Arshile Gorky John Katzman Norman Foster Fernando Pessoa E. J. Hughes Hokusai Kevin Munroe Nicole Richie Balthus Tintoretto Cennino Cennini Henri Matisse Paul Klee Tony Gilroy Bill Buxton Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Frederick Franck Rian Johnson Bill Peet John Singer Sargent Noma Bar Ben Shahn
2.
A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.
Paul Klee

3.
You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.
John Singer Sargent

4.
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.
Norman Foster

5.
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 go on with my drawing.
Vincent Van Gogh

6.
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.
Hokusai

7.
I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.
Vincent Van Gogh

8.
I always begin my stories as experiments - on large yellow tablets - a mixture of writing and sketching.
Bill Peet

9.
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
Balthus

10.
In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
Pablo Picasso

11.
The fundamental thing about sketching is that it isabout asking not telling
Bill Buxton

12.
I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
Karl Lagerfeld

13.
Drawing takes time. A line has time in it
David Hockney

14.
Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.
Arshile Gorky

15.
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.
Paul Laseau

16.
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.
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

17.
You can never do too much drawing.
Tintoretto

18.
Sketching is a continuing source of learning rather than a string of performances.
Paul Laseau

19.
I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen
Frederick Franck

20.
Stop sketching and start building.
Dennis Crowley

21.
Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.
Fernando Pessoa

22.
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.
Dennis Crowley

23.
My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketching to sampling and fitting.
Nicole Richie

24.
Draw lines - draw a lot of lines
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

25.
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.
Paul Laseau

26.
Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

27.
I became interested in photography when I was sharing a studio with Walker Evans, and found my own sketching was inadequate.
Ben Shahn

28.
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.
Cennino Cennini

29.
I studied to be an architect. And I find tremendous similarities between building a company and the design process. Businesses have to do their planning on the fly in a fashion similar to an architect sketching.
John Katzman

30.
Stop sketching. Start building.
Dennis Crowley

31.
I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.
Karl Lagerfeld

32.
Making movies wasn't really an immediate thought, where I was raised. I was going to be a lawyer, and I thought I would just draw. So, I was sketching all the time and I realized that I needed some outlet, and then I found animation.
Kevin Munroe

33.
While perspective is a handy device to construct imagined spaces, it is not useful, and possibly detrimental, to sketching existing environments.
Paul Laseau

34.
I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.
Tony Gilroy

35.
I really spend as long as I can sketching everything out and working on the structure before I sit down to type out scenes.
Rian Johnson

36.
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.
E. J. Hughes

37.
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?
David Hockney

38.
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.
Noma Bar