Stop sketching. Start building.

Draw lines - draw a lot of lines

You can never do too much drawing.

Stop sketching and start building.

Drawing takes time. A line has time in it

Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

I never look at my watch when I'm sketching!

Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene.

In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

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

I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.

I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.

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

As writers, we are sketching people all the time when we write fiction.

I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.

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

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

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

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

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

I have learnt sketching, drawing, singing, dancing, rifle shooting, paragliding.

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

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

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

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

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

I always craft my words to the point where I think and hope they're perfect before I ever begin sketching.

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

Design has long gone from tinkering and sketching of auteurs in isolation to a powerful catalyzer of growth.

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

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

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.

I really spend as long as I can sketching everything out and working on the structure before I sit down to type out scenes.

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

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.

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

I explored the arts in general; I took painting classes and sketching classes and acting classes and all sorts of different things.

Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.

I would like to be known as an 'artist'. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. I'm interested in all of those things.

I spent my childhood in the country and started reading even before going to school. There was nothing else in my life but sketching and reading.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections.

I get less and less sketching done at shows, as more and more people want to come up and talk or get stuff signed. Most requested character? Probably Catwoman.

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.

In one gallery they actually had a notice which said No Sketching. How obnoxious! I said, How do you think these things got on the walls if there was no sketching?

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