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Sketching Quotes

On the first marks that become finished work.

This page's sketching quotes trace how early habits shape careers, from a designer who started sketching dresses at eight to another who began with an imagined aircraft, both rooted in Art.

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.

Quotes by Adam Hughes

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...

Quotes by Vera Wang

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

Quotes by Tony Gilroy

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.

Quotes by Siegfried Woldhek

Art Quotes

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

Quotes by Rajkumar Hirani

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.

Quotes by Norman Foster

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

Quotes by Nicole Richie

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.

Quotes by Molly Crabapple

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.

Quotes by Mark Salling

Creativity Quotes

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...

Quotes by Mark Parker

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

Quotes by Margaret Qualley

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...

Quotes by Ma Jian

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

Quotes by Lynn Abbey

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

Quotes by Kevin Henkes

Emotion Quotes

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.

Quotes by John Katzman

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.

Quotes by John Hanning Speke

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

Quotes by Jens Martin Skibsted

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...

Quotes by J. G. Ballard

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.

Quotes by Elle Fanning

Expression Quotes

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

Quotes by Divyanka Tripathi

Frequently Asked Questions

What is this Sketching quotes page about?
It gathers quotes from designers and artists about how sketching functions in their creative process, from early childhood drawing to professional fashion work.
Why do people search for sketching quotes?
People search for sketching quotes for inspiration about starting creative work, especially the value of rough, early-stage drawing before a finished piece exists.
Did any of these designers sketch from a young age?
Yes, one designer recalls sketching dresses to wear while skating from age eight, showing how sketching connected performance and design from an early age.
Is there a quote about sketching aircraft?
Yes, another remembers sketching designs as far back as they can recall, starting with an imagined aircraft they pictured themselves piloting.
Does sketching only apply to fashion in these quotes?
No, one quote describes sketching as part of a freer, exploratory state used at the start of writing, showing the word applies across creative fields.

Other quotes describe sketching as part of a broader creative process, from fabric development to a freer state of mind, ideas that connect well to our Creativity quotes.