Sketchbook Quotes

#1. I'm just glad you didn't get you greedy little claws on the OTHER sketchbook. THAT would have been embarrassing.

Michelle Hodkin

#2. Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.

Carl Sandburg

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

Kody Chamberlain

#4. I was just taking my sketchbook to Kinko's and making photocopies and hand-assembling them - folding them over and stapling them.

Adrian Tomine

#5. My sketchbook is not sacrosanct, and my children would draw on one page while I drew on the other. It was something we shared.

Chris Riddell

#6. 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.

Robert Crumb

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

Vincent Van Gogh

#8. 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

#9. 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.

David Hockney

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

Noma Bar

#11. Once the computer is involved, things are on an inevitable path to being finished. Whereas in my sketchbook the possibilities are endless.

Austin Kleon

#12. The seed of an idea laying dormant in an old sketchbook is fed the missing ingredient from a new experience. Trying to share some of these experiences, some of the wonders, is one of the reasons why I do books.

Michael Foreman

#13. I was headed in the wrong direction. I didn't think I'd make it to 21. My Uncle Chuck saved my life. He was a graphic designer, and he gave me my first sketchbook. In the front, he wrote, 'Wear it like your underwear.'

Richard MacDonald

#14. My father was a painter, so I was encouraged to take a sketchbook everywhere. Cameras are perishable, but I still have tonnes of sketchbooks from all the trips I've ever been on. It gets you by when you don't know what to give people as a gift; drawings are good souvenirs.

Jane Birkin

#15. I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle, because I am a very uncoordinated athlete.

Kate Voegele

#16. 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)

Markus Zusak

#17. Don't go crazy with art supplies at first. Just get a sketchbook and a pen that'll fit in your bag and keep them with you for when a moment opens up.

Danny Gregory

#18. 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.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#19. She eased across the creaking floorboards to the nearest window.
The view encompassed the woods, with dark shapes smeared into one entity, like in her sketchbook.
What lay amongst the trees?

Jordan Elizabeth Mierek

#20. I don't much enjoy travelling, but I have always longed to take a slow train to Russia. I'd like to go alone - like writers do - with only a pencil and piece of paper as company. I'd take my sketchbook and note down all the wonderful details of other travellers.

Jane Birkin

#21. I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary.

Gabriele Munter

#22. I sketch while I'm on set, and it's a way for me to record all of the locations I've been to. I don't keep a diary but a sketchbook.

Jessalyn Gilsig

#23. 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.

Glen Keane

#24. 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

#25. When you're looking for a sketchbook, you've got to find the right paper for the pens you like to use. I like to draw on both sides of the page.

Jeffrey Brown

#26. Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

Chris Riddell

#27. Eliza sitting naked on a pink towel. So beautiful I could die.

Concentrating, all focused in on her sketchbook, but aw, god ...her tail.

Her cute little tail moving slowly back and forth, making a fan shape in the dirt.

She's the one. She really is. I know that now.

Charles Burns

#28. My technique of working is I go around with my iPhone and with my sketchbook. I take thousands and thousands and thousands of iPhone photos. I also draw from life. I can draw really, really, really fast. It's a way that I build a rapport with people.

Molly Crabapple

#29. I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.

Jonathan Carroll

#30. Exploitation is not exclusively capitalist, but wealth creation is.

Joyce Appleby

#31. If you've been snubbed, or ignored, or frustrated, and your life's pretty drab and empty, I suppose you get a sense of power from stabbing in the dark at people who are happy and enjoying themselves.

Agatha Christie

#32. More then me you betrayed to God Because you said Tujkh mai rab dikhta hai ( i see my God in you)

Mohammed Zaki Ansari

#33. When I'm challenged, I grow. I never want to be in a situation where I'm not challenged and not afraid. One of my favorite feelings is stepping into a film and knowing that I'm a little bit afraid of what I have to accomplish.

Nikki Reed

#34. Even to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrnus, but to few men comes the gift of excellence.

Theognis Of Megara

#35. This marking, said Victoria, running her finger over a knot in the bark. What does it look like to you?
It looks like a heart, said Lawrence. He put his fingers on the knot too. They brushed Victoria's, and he drew back. I mean, not that I think about things like that, or
well, you know.

Claire Legrand