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“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.”

Drawing Experiments Not Sure Sketchbooks

Author:Sigmar Polke

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

Used Class Athlete Gym Sketchbooks Gym Class

Author:Kate Voegele

“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.”

Bigs Levels Technology Media Mark Size Eight Drawing Likes Iphone New Media Sketchbooks

Author:David Hockney

“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.”

Mind Artist Written Essence Notes Insight Intimate Pockets Comment Closest Notebook Sketchbooks

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“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.”

People Way Trying Littles Stories Film Moving Lines Simple Study Directors Paper Draws Bases Capture Animation Sketchbooks

Author:John Musker

“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.”

Years Ends Dream Fantasy Teacher Dresses Sketching Sketchbooks

Author:Alber Elbaz

“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.”

Long Games My Own One Thing Skills Paper Fairs Selling Mainstream Filling Fair Game Sketchbooks

Author:Stephen R. Bissette

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

Dream Blood Pages Dust Poetry Is Print Thumbs Outlines Sketchbooks

Book:Smoke and steel: Slabs of the sunburnt West. Good morning, America

Source: Smoke and steel: Slabs of the sunburnt West. Good morning, America

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

Art Process Mess Perfectionist Sketchbooks

Author:Noma Bar

“I paint a little and keep sketchbooks because it has the effect of preventing me becoming lazy about looking. The subject could be anything.”

Littles Subjects Effects Becoming Paint Lazy Preventing Sketchbooks

Author:Richard Billingham

“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.”

Knows Looks Forget Audience Creative Bunch Sketchbooks

Author:Demetri Martin

“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.”

Ifs Knows Inspired Muse Sketchbooks

Author:Erdem Moral?oglu

“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.”

Trying Ideas Worry Laughing Sitting Aim Come Up Shooting Sketchbooks

Author:Barry Blitt

“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.”

Thinking Knows Shows Rooms Design Promise Picks Dresses Clothings Fabric Worthless Living Room Arranging Cinna Sketchbooks Arranging Things

Author:Suzanne Collins

“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.”

Source: Tricks

“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)”

Men World Firsts Night Girl Arms Jew Teenage Teenage Girl Mattresses Sketchbooks

Author:Markus Zusak

“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 Done Secret Plans Drawing Spontaneous Sketchbooks Premeditation

Author:Robert Motherwell

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

Might Girl Generations Filled Drawing Educated Diaries My Generation Sketchbooks

Author:Gabriele Munter

“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.”

Thinking Ends Hard Would Be Loses Brain Drug Horrible Girlfriend Chaotic My Girlfriend Orderly Bryan Sketchbooks

Author:Thom Yorke

“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.”

Years Kind Children I Can Feelings Would Be Today Remember Young Artist Stars Grew Shapes Paper Grew Up Years Ago Paint Lovely Touching Brushes Pencils Colorful Crayon Sketchbooks

Author:Eric Carle

“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.”

World Years Generations Draws Phones Passing Passings Absent Ariel Sketchbooks Doodling

Author:Glen Keane

“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.”

Way Ideas Running Bits Hours Practice Pieces Tests Filled Prepared Planning Meant To Be Masterpiece Rowing Bits And Pieces Sketchbooks

Author:Brad Alan Lewis

“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.”

Knows Moving Notes Passing Passings Stopping Hunters Shorthand Sketchbooks

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

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

Happens Witness Artistry Scribbles Sketchbooks

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“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.”

People Real Young Behinds Drawing Real Life Nervous Shy Hiding Sketchbooks

Author:Robert Crumb

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

Persons Don't Trust Immaculate Sketchbooks

Author:Kody Chamberlain