Sketching Quotes - Page 2

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

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Hands, Born, Pencils

  "Karl Lagerfeld on Diets, Sobriety, and Becoming a 'Nicer Person'". Interview with Jessica Chastain, www.thecut.com. November 7, 2013.

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• It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

  Camille Pissarro

  Art, Character, Drawing

  Camille Pissarro, John Rewald (1963). “Camille Pissarro”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• Drawing is the probity of art. To draw does not mean simply to reproduce contours; drawing does not consist merely of line: drawing is also expression, the inner form, the plane, the modeling. See what remains after that.

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  Art, Mean, Expression

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• Drawing takes time. A line has time in it

  David Hockney

  Drawing, Lines, Take Time

  www.thrillist.com.

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• You can never do too much drawing.

  Tintoretto

  Drawing, Too Much

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

  Fernando Pessoa

  Sight, Smell, Landscape

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 238, 1982.

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• For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance.

  Alber Elbaz

  Dream, Home, Somewhere Else

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• Stop sketching and start building.

  Dennis Crowley

  Building

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

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Hate, Reading, Leisure

  "Karl Lagerfeld, Global Aphorist" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. July 17, 2009.

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• Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

  Arshile Gorky

  Art, Drawing, Paint

  Melvin P. Lader, Arshile Gorky, Gerald Peters Gallery (1990). “Arshile Gorky: three decades of drawings”

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• The poetic beauty of Davy's mind never seems to have left him. To that circumstance I would ascribe the distinguishing feature in his character, and in his discoveries,-a vivid imagination sketching out new tracts in regions unexplored, for the judgement to select those leading to the recesses of abstract truth.

  Davies Gilbert

  Character, Science, Discovery

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

  Lynn Abbey

  Writing, Intuition, Stories

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• I became interested in photography when I was sharing a studio with Walker Evans, and found my own sketching was inadequate.

  Ben Shahn

  Photography, Found, My Own

  "Ben Shahn".

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• You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Thankful

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• 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, Matter

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• After sketching his program for the scientific revolution that he foresaw, Bacon ends his account with a prayer: "Humbly we pray that this mind may be steadfast in us, and that through these our hands, and the hands of others to whom thou shalt give the same spirit, thou wilt vouchsafe to endow the human family with new mercies". That is still a good prayer for all of us as we begin the twenty-first century.

  Freeman Dyson

  Prayer, Hands, Giving

  "Progress In Religion". Freeman Dyson's Acceptance Speech for the Templeton Prize at the Washington National Cathedral, www.edge.org. May 16, 2000.

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• Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  Art, Drawing, Three

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• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  Vera Wang

  Design, Technique, Skating

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• Little things like making clothes, baking bread, cooking, even useless things like bird-watching, sketching flowers, playing guitar in the home - that sort of time is gone. And the time we have? We're so exhausted, we want to let ourselves get sucked in to the escape world of TV. I'm speaking from experience; I'm not above all this.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Flower, Home, Guitar

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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• My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketching to sampling and fitting.

  Nicole Richie

  Jobs, Creating, Fabric

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• I'll always have acting. But then if I had to choose something else it'd probably be singing or dancing - if I had to. Or maybe, like, designer, like sketching designs.

  Elle Fanning

  Dancing, Design, Singing

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• Stop sketching. Start building.

  Dennis Crowley

  Building

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• 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, Dodgeball, Want

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• For me, between "Reference" and "Sketching & Conceptualizing" is the "Get the Hell Out of the Studio" step. I most often NEED to shut off the computer, push myself back from my desk and escape the studio space to let possible ideas percolate in my gray matter before committing anything to paper or digital imagery as a sketch or a concept.

  Jeff Fisher

  Ideas, Space, Gray Matter

  Source: justcreative.com

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• I appreciate both men and women. I love the female body and truly appreciate the female form. I really enjoy sketching women, especially their backs. I definitely need a man in the bedroom, however-a nice strong chest to lie on. Still, I want to explore. Never say never.

  Miranda Kerr

  Strong, Nice, Lying

  "Miranda Kerr Appreciates ‘Both Men And Women,’ Wants To ‘Explore’". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2014.

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