Best Pencils Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir

“Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies.”

Writing Art Creativity Self Realization Pencils Self Belief Self Doubt Fear Quote Author Carla H Krueger Sleeping With The Sun

Book:Sleeping with the Sun

Source: Sleeping with the Sun

“The sound of pencils taking notes provided a low scrape and hum, almost like radio interference.”

Notes Radio Pencils Paperwork Sara Sheridan Mirabellebevan

Book:British Bulldog

Source: British Bulldog

“Mistakes are forgiven, but only in pencil.”

Philosophy Quote Of The Day Mistakes Anthony T Hincks Pencils Veitch Eraser Rubbers

Author:Anthony T. Hincks

“When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.”

Littles Said Used Mother Air Needed Draws Fingers Pencils

Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.”

Has Beens Two Lines Boys Paper Logic Bases Distance Philosopher Invisible Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Visible Fountain Pencils Straight Lines Nothing New Ontology

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?”

Writing Hard Sitting Rose Clubs Ass Interviews Chairs Pencils Something Better Sharpening Trimming

Author:Jerry Pournelle

“I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils.”

House Secret Protect Gun Presses Pencils Assassins Secret Service

Author:Michael Reagan

“What I've become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you'd rather stick those pencils in your eyes. Sometimes I almost punish myself - if I'm not going be able to write, I'm not going be able to do anything else. I just sit there and wait.”

Ifs Writing Sometimes Eye Able Hate Waiting Sticks Convinced Pencils

Author:Ron Rash

“I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.”

Trying Littles Stories Bits Records Pencils

Author:Kid Koala

“No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell”

Looks Book Running Hell Teacher Rings Dirty Bells Pencils

Author:Alice Cooper

“I hollowed out, stopped listening to music, never picked up a pencil, started slipping into old habits. All of the vibrancy I used to see became de-saturated. Lost Slowly, once I had done enough damage to myself, I began to climb out of the hole. Clean. When I made it out, the only thing left inside was the voice, and for the second time in my life, I no longer ignored it - because it was my own.”

Made Done Enough Used Lost Left Voice My Own Listening Habit Clean Holes Made It Damage Climbs Ignored Pencils Listening To Music Slipping Saturated Old Habits Vibrancy

Author:Gerard Way

“If you want to draw comics, you really have to love to draw, as you will be spending many hours sitting down with a pencil or pen in your hand.”

Ifs Want Hands Hours Draws Sitting Spending Pens Pencils Sitting Down

Author:Dave Gibbons

“Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies in all the ointments, the daily woes that a man endures -- take them, George, they're yours!”

Men Today Office Endure Lists Pens Woe Pencils Typewriters Appointments

Book:The primrose path

Source: The primrose path

“It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.”

Two Used Lost Given Difficult Poverty Mines Research Devotion Enthusiasm Pens Fountain Pencils Provoked Nickels Fountain Pens Ballpoint Pens

Author:Immanuel Velikovsky

“At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .”

Men Littles Bits Democracy Walking Paper Little Bit Crosses Paid Bottom Pencils Tribute Little Man

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.”

Greater Fool Paint Drunk Pencils Madmen Drunkenness

Book:Blake: The Complete Poems

Source: Blake: The Complete Poems

“What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I am inside my studio, what use is my mind? I have my model, my pencil, my paints. My mind doesn't interest me.”

Mind Use Interest Imagination Pay Models Paint Studios Granted Bus Pencils Hail

Author:Edgar Degas

“The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.”

Ifs Looks Art Hands Bits Paper Photography Cameras Video Bores Pencils Video Cameras

Author:David Hockney

“My pencil is like a fencer's foil.”

Deception Pencils Foils

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.”

Courses Drawing Pencils Knights Undisciplined Watercolors

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick or whatever. In sculpture you can get a rock. Writing you just need a pencil and paper.”

Needs Writing Art Film Form Pieces Rocks Painting Paper Picks Sticks Pens Pencils Sculpture Chalk

Author:Forest Whitaker

“There's such a thing as too much point on a pencil.”

Too Much Moderation Pencils Gentility

Author:H. Allen Smith

“When money enters in - then, for a price, I become a liar - and a good one I can be whether with pencil or subtle lighting or viewpoint. I hate it all, but so do I support not only my family, but my own work.”

I Can Hate My Own Support My Family I Hate Subtle Liars Pencils Lighting Viewpoints

Book:The daybooks of Edward Weston

Source: The daybooks of Edward Weston

“When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.”

Men Way Darkness Path Paper Drawing Gestures Sheets Pencils

Author:Alberto Giacometti

“Art class was like a religious ceremony to me. I would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils. The instruments of work were sacred objects to me.”

Art Hands Religious Class Objects Paper Instruments Sacred Touching Pencils Ceremony Art Class

Author:Joan Miro

“No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of paper and a pencil or paints.”

Long I Can Jobs Pieces Paper Draws Paint Drawing Pencils

Author:John Newman

“The most interesting studio work, and perhaps the most practicable, is painting from pencil sketches and notes... It ensures the elimination of all facts but those essential to the effect.”

Facts Interesting Effects Painting Essentials Notes Simplicity Studios Pencils Most Interesting Elimination

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again.”

Said Painter Vanity Landscape Pencils

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“I've found from years of trial that the only way I can work is to make sketches in pencil from Nature, purely as reference material for future use in the studio.”

Way Years I Can Use Found Materials Studios Drawing Trials Pencils

Author:E. J. Hughes

“Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines.”

Lines Watches Draws Drawing Shoulders Meaningless Pencils

Author:E. J. Hughes

“The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches with pencil.”

Figures Painting Pencils

Author:E. J. Hughes

“I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.”

Black Fashion Style Design Dresses Strokes Pencils

Author:Yves Saint Laurent

“Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence.”

Way Home Used Half Loneliness Fields Wind Higher Bird Crosses One Way Pencils Permanence Way Home Telegraph Foliage Steeples

Author:A. E. Coppard

“Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to the desk... roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter... and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead.”

Writing Firsts Simple Blood Paper Plenty Staring Desks Sheets Belly Pencils Foreheads Typewriters Ribbons Beads Sharp Pencils

Author:Jeff MacNelly

“Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil.”

Type Pencils

Author:Clive Thompson

“Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it's empowering generations to come. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.”

World Made Ideas Dream Desire Simple Creativity Support Generations Possibility Promise Financial Empowering Grounded Pencils Heartfelt Simple Ideas Financial Support

Author:Adam Braun

“My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?' and he answered me with two words: 'A pencil.' Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.”

Ifs World Want Giving Two Dream Born Boys Journey Streets India Pockets Pencils Defining Begging My Journey

Author:Adam Braun

“Paint is something that I use with my hands and do all those tactile things. I really don't like oil because you can't get back into it, or you make a mess. It's not my favourite thing - pencil is more my medium than wet paint.”

Use Hands Paint Oil Mediums Mess Get Back Favourite Wet Pencils Tactile Favourite Things

Author:Cy Twombly

“I wear anything I feel like. If I want to put on a pair of Converse with a pencil stuck through them, I will.”

Ifs Want Feels Stuck Pairs Pencils Converses

Author:Willow Smith

“I hate my verses, every line, every word. Oh pale and brittle pencils ever to try One grass-blade's curve, or the throat of one bird That clings to twig, ruffled against white sky. Oh cracked and twilight mirrors ever to catch One color, one glinting flash, of the splendor of things.”

Trying Poetry Hate Lines White Sky Color Bird I Hate Mirrors Grass Throat Twilight Flash Pale Verses Curves Pencils Blades Splendor Cracked Twigs

Book:The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1928-1938

Source: The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1928-1938

“What does a river like the Vistula carry away with it? Everything that goes to pieces: wood, glass, pencils, pacts ... chairs, bones, and sunsets too. What had long been forgotten rose to memory, floating on its back or stomach, with the help of the Vistula.”

Long Doe Helping Memories Pieces Rivers Rose Forgotten Glasses Woods Bones Sunset Chairs Stomach Floating Pencils Pact

Author:Gunter Grass

“I could buy myself paper, a pen, a pencil and a brush and could create pictures whenever and wherever I wanted. ... That evening, in the spring of 1947, on the embankment of the Seine in Paris, at the age of thirty, I saw that it was possible to live and work in the world, and that I could participate in the exchange of ideas that was taking place all around, bound to no country.”

World Ideas Country Age Wanted Saws Paper Spring Bounds Evening Paris Thirty Pens Brushes Pencils

Book:Leavetaking: And , Vanishing Point

Source: Leavetaking: And , Vanishing Point

“I was really relieved not to have to drag something in front of the camera; I could use a pencil and paper. A regular pencil and typing paper. That appealed to me.”

Use Fronts Paper Cameras Drag Pencils Relieved Typing

Book:William Wegman: Funney/strange

Source: William Wegman: Funney/strange

“I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial learning process. The things we now do automatically, such as perspective, pencil control, values and composition were as unfamiliar and intimidating as a foreign language.”

“I put my pencil upon the paper, doubtfully, and drew little lines, considering my theme. But I would not long hesitate in this manner, for I knew that all creation must be chaos first, and then gestures in the void before it can cast out the completed thing.”

Firsts Littles Long Lines Creation Paper Chaos Casts Theme Void Gestures Considering Pencils

Book:Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)

“Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice-- not enough money, not enough love--pity for all of us--it is our grace, walking down the ramp or on the moving sidewalk, sitting in a chair, reading the paper, pity, turning a leaf to the light, arranging a thorn.”

Enough Light Moving Reading Voice Grace Walking Paper Sitting Pity This Life Meat Chairs Leafs Worms Pencils Shaking Sidewalk Arranging Ramp Enough Love Sitting In A Chair

Author:Jane Austen

“I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor pem”

Youth Poet Pride Painter Pencils

Author:Dante Gabriel Rossetti

“Still I should paint my own places best; painting is with me but another word for feeling, and I associate "my careless boyhood" with all that lies on the banks of the Stour; those scenes made me a painter, and I am grateful; that is, I had often thought of pictures of them before ever I touched a pencil, and your picture ['The White Horse'] is one of the strongest instance I can recollect of it.”

Should Made Stills I Can Feelings Lying My Own White Painting Scene Horse Grateful Paint Painter Instance Touched Strongest Associates Pencils Careless I Am Grateful Boyhood White Horse

Author:John Constable

“Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move.”

Art Moving Artist Pencils

Book:Rise of Endymion

Source: Rise of Endymion

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