Sketching Quotes

• Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as such, it should be as free, and happy, as a song in the bath.

  Mervyn Levy

  Song, Art, Freedom

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

  Paul Laseau

  Drawing, Source, Strings

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• A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Drawing, Lines

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• In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

  Pablo Picasso

  Drawing, Firsts

  "Picasso and Compan". Book by Gyula Brassaï, 1966.

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• Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Inspiring, Photography, Drawing

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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• I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Thinking, Drawing, Sometimes

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent W. van Gogh (1970). “Vincent Van Gogh: Paintings and Drawings : Exhibition”

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• Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

  Salvador Dali

  Cheating, Art, Honesty

  "People" Magazine, September 27, 1976.

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• 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.

  Paul Laseau

  Practice, Attention, World

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

  John Singer Sargent

  Drawing, Curiosity, Enough

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• Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

  Henri Matisse

  Ideas, Drawing, Lines

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  Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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

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• 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.

  Cennino Cennini

  Art, Drawing, Goes On

  c.1400 Il Libro dell' Arte ('The Craftsman's Handbook').

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• Drawing is the honesty of the art.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Honesty, Drawing

  "People" Magazine, September 27, 1976.

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• Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.

  Edgar Degas

  Writing, Artist, Expression

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• Draw lines - draw a lot of lines

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  Drawing, Lines, Draws

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• Few people know that I am also an artist; I truly enjoy sketching and drawing.

  Sonakshi Sinha

  Artist, Drawing, People

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

  Bill Buxton

  Fundamentals, Asking

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• I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

  Le Corbusier

  Lying, Talking, Drawing

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

  Tony Gilroy

  Writing, States, Free State

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• 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.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artist, Drawing, Goes On

  Vincent van Gogh, Dorothee Hansen, Lawrence W. Nichols, Judy Sund, Kunsthalle Bremen (2003). “Van Gogh: fields”

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• I use a special tool. I make it myself; very sharp steel point and a handle like a pencil. For me it is a pencil. Maybe I have a special talent, a feeling you might say that lets me control it, to express my ideas as though I were sketching black on white.

  Ugo Mochi

  Ideas, White, Feelings

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

  Balthus

  Eye, Drawing, Draws

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

  Frederick Franck

  Drawing, I Have Learned

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• Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

  David Hockney

  Moving, Race, Drawing

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• 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.

  Paul Laseau

  Media, Drawing, Lines

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