Pencils Quotes - Page 18

• Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick or whatever. In sculpture you can get a rock. Writing you just need a pencil and paper.

  Forest Whitaker

  Art, Writing, Rocks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

  Danny Huston

  Drawing, Passionate, Pads

  "Danny Huston Does The Boogie Woogie". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. April 21, 2010.

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• Since I've been hired to contribute to the storyline of 'Doom 4' I can say what was always true anyway. I'm working. You see, for a writer, lots of stuff that doesn't look like working is actually working. Looking out of the window, for example. Balancing a pencil on the edge of the desk in order to find its exact fulcrum. Playing 'Doom.

  Graham Joyce

  Order, Example, Looks

  "Prize-winning author Graham Joyce to write script for Doom 4" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2009.

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• When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Distance, Boys, Two

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• The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?

  Jerry Pournelle

  Writing, Rose, Sitting

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• I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils.

  Michael Reagan

  Gun, House, Secret

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• No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell

  Alice Cooper

  Running, Teacher, Book

  Song "School's Out / Another Brick In the Wall" by "Hollywood Vampires", 2015.

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• If you want to draw comics, you really have to love to draw, as you will be spending many hours sitting down with a pencil or pen in your hand.

  Dave Gibbons

  Hands, Sitting Down, Want

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• It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.

  Immanuel Velikovsky

  Two, Research, Enthusiasm

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• At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Democracy, Paper

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• I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a new notebook. I have dozens of them just sitting around.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Notebook, Sitting, Dozen

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• What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I am inside my studio, what use is my mind? I have my model, my pencil, my paints. My mind doesn't interest me.

  Edgar Degas

  Imagination, Mind, Use

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• And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Knights, Drawing, Undisciplined

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• All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.

  William Blake

  Drunk, Fool, Paint

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.641, Pearson Education

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• I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.

  Otis Blackwell

  Thinking, Years, Looks

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• I am not talking about the American people and the British people, I am talking about those mercenaries. ... They have started throwing those pencils, but they are not pencils, they are booby traps to kill the children.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Children, Military

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• It’s my luck that every time I feel I completely comprehend God’s plan, I don’t have a pencil with me.

  Robert Breault

  Luck, God's Plan, Plans

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• I had always drawn, every day as long as I had held a pencil, and just assumed everyone else had too…Art had saved me and helped me fit in…Art was always my saving grace…Comedy didn’t come until much later for me. I’ve always tried to combine the two things, art and comedy, and couldn’t make a choice between the two. It was always my ambition to make comedy with an art-school slant, and art that could be funny instead of po-faced.

  Noel Fielding

  Art, Ambition, School

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• Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

  Eugenio Montale

  Art, Pieces, Paper

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• The most interesting studio work, and perhaps the most practicable, is painting from pencil sketches and notes... It ensures the elimination of all facts but those essential to the effect.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Interesting, Simplicity, Essentials

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• No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of paper and a pencil or paints.

  John Newman

  Jobs, Drawing, Long

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• At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Voting, Democracy

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.457, Da Capo Press

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• Style a classic pencil skirt with on-trend prints to end the week in style.

  Lubov Azria

  Style, Trends, Skirts

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• The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Art, Hands

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• Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Writing, Needs, Ugly

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.113, Shambhala Publications

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