Sketchbooks Quotes

On this page you will find all the quotes on the topic "Sketchbooks". There are currently 27 quotes in our collection about Sketchbooks. Discover the TOP 10 sayings about Sketchbooks!
The best sayings about Sketchbooks that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
  • I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary.

    Interview with Edouard Roditi in 1958. "Dialogues: Conversations With European Artists at Mid-Century". Book by Edouard Roditi, p. 114, 1990.
  • For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like as much as anything I have ever done. They are invariably without premeditation. I mean not only that I have no plan when I make them, I also have no plan to make them.

    Mean   Drawing   Secret  
  • I like to make myself laugh. When I'm just sitting with a sketchbook and trying to make myself laugh or trying to come up with ideas, I try not to worry about aim right away. I'm just sort of shooting in all directions.

    Ideas   Laughing   Worry  
    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • I had thought comics could only be one thing, and that was what mainstream comics were selling us. And the undergrounders proved anything you had in your head, as long as you had the skill to put it down on paper, was fair game. And I started filling sketchbooks with my own comics.

    Games   Skills   Long  
    Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2009.
  • Eyes Tell Stories But do they know how to craft fiction? Do they know how to spin lies? His eyes swear forever, flatter with vows of only me. But are they empty promises? I stare into his eyes, as into a crystal ball, but I cannot find forever, only movies of yesterday, a sketchbook of today, dreams of a shared tomorrow. His eyes whisper secrets. But are they truths or fairy tales? I wonder if even he knows.

    Dream   Lying   Eye  
    Ellen Hopkins (2009). “Tricks”, p.20, Simon and Schuster
  • I paint a little and keep sketchbooks because it has the effect of preventing me becoming lazy about looking. The subject could be anything.

    Lazy   Littles   Becoming  
  • I thought the iPhone was great, but this takes it to a new level - simply because it's eight times the size of the iPhone, as big as a reasonably-sized sketchbook... Anyone who likes drawing and mark-making will like to explore new media.

  • Many years after animating Ariel, I continue to draw her, doodling as I talk on the phone, absent-mindedly passing time in a sketchbook. She has become a part of me and yet now belongs to the world and generations to come.

    Phones   Years   Doodling  
  • Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm not sure what will come out.

  • When I see someone with an immaculate sketchbook, I don't trust that person.

  • Us on hard drugs? That would be horrible. We'd probably end up sounding like Bryan Adams.My girlfriend has this quote in her sketchbook: Remain orderly in your life so you can be free and chaotic in your work. I think basically you lose it when you destroy your brain or destroy yourself emotionally or burn yourself up.

  • Now he's [Cinna] arranging things around my living room: Clothing, fabrics, and sketchbooks with designs he's drawn. I pick one up and examine one of the dresses I supposedly created. You know, I think I show a lot of promise," I say. Get dressed, you worthless thing.

  • When it comes to my art work I would say that I am a perfectionist, although my sketchbook, and my process, is a mess.

    Interview with Drew Dernavich, www.newyorker.com. September 17, 2008.
  • She was a Jew feeder without a question in the world on that man's first night in Molching. She was an arm reacher, deep into a mattress, to deliver a sketchbook to a teenage girl. (84.25)

    Girl   Teenage   Night  
  • Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.

    Dream   Dust   Blood  
    Carl Sandburg (1928). “Smoke and steel: Slabs of the sunburnt West. Good morning, America”, Harcourt, Brace and World
  • I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle, because I am a very uncoordinated athlete.

  • I don't know if I've ever had a muse per se. I would say that the woman I'm inspired by exists more in my sketchbooks. She exists in my head.

    Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
  • Picasso spent hundereds of hours carefully planning his masterpieces. The sketchbooks were filled with ideas, bits and pieces, test runs, none of it meant to be seen by anyone. In a similar way, rowing practices are our sketchbooks, where we prepared our raceday masterpiece.

  • My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.

  • How many of you are creative? I don't know, but for me, when you make a bunch of things over time and then you keep them... you forget. I look through my sketchbooks and I'm an audience for myself.

  • I always had a sketchbook with me when I was young. I was hiding behind it, basically, hiding behind drawing because I couldn't cope with people in real life; I was very shy and very nervous around people.

    Real   Drawing   People  
  • The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.

    Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.11, Hachette UK
  • The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook. Shooting a camera is like saying, Yes, yes, yes. There is no maybe. All the maybes should go in the trash.

    Kissing   Gun   Cameras  
  • When I was either 7 or 8 years old, I did a sketch every day of my teacher and what she wore. At the end of the year, I gave her the sketchbook. For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams.

    Dream   Teacher   Years  
  • Ever since I was very young, as far back as I can remember, I have loved making pictures. I knew even as a child that, when I grew up, I would be an artist of some kind. The lovely feeling of my pencil touching paper, a crayon making a star shape in my sketchbook, or my brush dipping into bright and colorful paints — these things affect me as joyfully today as they did all those years ago.

    Stars   Children   Artist  
  • Learn how to draw. It's the basis of what we [animation directors] do. Keep a sketchbook. Try making a very simple little film. Try and tell a story clearly and entertainingly. Study the way people move and animate move. Observe all you can, and try and capture that simply in a few lines on paper.

    Moving   Simple   People  
    Source: movieweb.com
  • It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks... where written comments and personal notes provide an intimate insight into the magical mind of a working artist.

Page 1 of 1
We hope our collection of Sketchbooks quotes has inspired you! Our collection of sayings about Sketchbooks is constantly growing (today it includes 27 sayings from famous people about Sketchbooks), visit us more often and find new quotes from famous authors!
Share our collection of quotes on social networks – this will allow as many people as possible to find inspiring quotes about Sketchbooks!