Sketching quotes

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

#Eye #Drawing #Sketching

I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.
-- Ben Shahn

#Photography #Sketching #Found

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

#Sketching #Asking #Fundamentals

Stop sketching. Start building.
-- Dennis Crowley

#Sketching #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.
-- Dennis Crowley

#Bored #Sketching #Dodgeball

Stop sketching and start building.
-- Dennis Crowley

#Sketching #Building

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

#Time #Doors #Sketching

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

#Sight #Smell #Sketching

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

#Drawing #Sketching #I Have Learned

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

#Years #Age #Sketching

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

#Drawing #Sketching #Lines

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

#Art #Drawing #Sketching

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

#Fashion #Design #Sketching

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

#Drawing #Curiosity #Sketching

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

#Hate #Reading #Sketching

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

#Hands #Sketching #Born

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

#Intuition #Sketching #Stories

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

#Design #Firsts #Sketching

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

#Drawing #Sketching #Source

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

#Space #Perspective #Sketching

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

#Long #Sketching #Scene

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

#Writing #Sketching #States

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

#Sketching #Lawyer #Found

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

#Opposites #Icons #Sketching

You can never do too much drawing.
-- Tintoretto

#Drawing #Sketching #Too Much

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

#Writing #Yellow #Sketching