Sketching Quotes

Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

You can never do too much drawing.

Stop sketching and start building.

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.

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

Draw lines - draw a lot of lines

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

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

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.

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.

Stop sketching. Start building.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.