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.

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.

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

Stop sketching and start building.

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.

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.

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.