Sketching Quotes

‘Few people know that I am also an artist; I truly enjoy sketching and drawing.’ – Sonakshi Sinha

‘Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter’s identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.’ – Fernando Botero

‘Drawing is the only thing I’ve found in which I can lose myself completely. I love it. It started as something that relaxed me, but now it’s a struggle because I’m pushing myself. The day-to-day sketching is fraught.’ – Peter Capaldi

‘I never look at my watch when I’m sketching!’ – Karl Lagerfeld

‘I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.’ – Becky G

‘As writers, we are sketching people all the time when we write fiction.’ – Rajkumar Hirani

‘I don’t use names or captions for my many portraits of politicians and authors for newspapers. The drawing has to be self-explanatory, so I spend a lot of time sketching to find an idea and an angle that is clear.’ – Siegfried Woldhek

‘Sketching is like dancing. It’s process as much as product. You can turn your head off and just sort of dissolve into the now. Doing a giant, super thought-out painting is the opposite of that.’ – Molly Crabapple

‘I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.’ – Amandla Stenberg

‘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.’ – Karl Lagerfeld

‘I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I’m writing in the beginning and sketching.’ – Tony Gilroy

‘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.’ – Mark Salling

‘Objectifying is kind of a funny thing. Art is objectification, all art, because you’re taking someone and making them into an object. But people can also talk back more to you when you’re sketching them. They can look at you and say, ‘Oh man, you got me wrong.” – Molly Crabapple

‘I studied to be an architect. And I find tremendous similarities between building a company and the design process. Businesses have to do their planning on the fly in a fashion similar to an architect sketching.’ – John Katzman

‘I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.’ – Ben Shahn

‘I always carry a sketchbook around with me, and I sketch whenever I can… I might be in a financial review and be sketching because I find that I actually listen better when I sketch. Truth be told, there are probably more sketches in my books than there are written notes.’ – Mark Parker

‘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

‘I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don’t have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.’ – Karl Lagerfeld

‘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

‘Sketching in general – anywhere, not just in Gitmo, but in life, in the world – is a profoundly disruptive act. Because you’re creating something when you’re kind of expected to consume or sit passively. I’ve always sketched things as a way to get into them, whether it was a fancy nightclub or, you know, to have kids think I was cool, whatever.’ – Molly Crabapple

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

‘Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene.’ – Ian Mckellen

‘I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.’ – Karl Lagerfeld

‘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

‘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.’ – John Hanning Speke

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

‘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

‘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.’ – Alber Elbaz

‘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.’ – Norman Foster

‘One of the best places for a shy person to meet people is in a coffee shop. If you are a reader, bring a book and read it there – that gives a guy something to ask you about. Same goes for sketching, writing, or any hobby you can take with you.’ – Laurie Helgoe

‘There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art – I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.’ – J. G. Ballard

‘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.’ – Adam Hughes

‘Whatever China I’d been born into, I would probably still have become a painter – I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn’t been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.’ – Ma Jian

‘I lived in South America when I was growing up. I spent hours sketching. I was good at drawing, and I was obsessed with fashion, but I was also obsessed with magazines.’ – Nina Garcia

‘I always craft my words to the point where I think and hope they’re perfect before I ever begin sketching.’ – Kevin Henkes

‘Sometimes the very best of all summer books is a blank notebook. Get one big enough, and you can practice sketching the lemon slice in your drink or the hot lifeguard on the beach or the vista down the hill from your cabin.’ – Michael Dirda

‘I have learnt sketching, drawing, singing, dancing, rifle shooting, paragliding.’ – Divyanka Tripathi

‘Design has long gone from tinkering and sketching of auteurs in isolation to a powerful catalyzer of growth.’ – Jens Martin Skibsted

‘I explored the arts in general; I took painting classes and sketching classes and acting classes and all sorts of different things.’ – Margaret Qualley

‘I created DonorsChoose by putting pencil to paper – literally – and sketching out each screen of the web site and how it would work. Then I paid a programmer from Poland $1,500 to turn my sketches and common-sense rules into a functioning website.’ – Charles Best

‘Electric Gypsy’ was really raw. I was literally sketching out the lyrics as they walked in the door. I jumped up and had a sheet of paper and I showed them the chords, which are simple. We counted it off, I got the lyrics off the sheet into the song and played a solo at the end – done!’ – Mike Campbell