Etching 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.

I do some weights and I do a lot of stretching.

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.

Stretching was a major part of my preparation.

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

Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them.

In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

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

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

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

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.

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.

You can never do too much drawing.

There's nothing wrong with stretching the truth. We stretch taffy, and that just makes it more delicious.

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.

By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.

I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can.

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

We don't see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become.