#pencil

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky. ↗

— William Merritt Chase

#i #landscape #making #must #painting

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost! ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#could #eye #eyes #how #long

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

#idea #moving #pencil #quickly

Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word. ↗

— Jon Postel

#consensus #corporate #documents #drafted #each

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil. ↗

— Balthus

#cannot #draw #eyes #must #pencil

In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren't computer people, and the computer people usually aren't the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line. ↗

— Don Bluth

#animation #artistic #computer #line #opposite

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. ↗

— Robert Brault

#case #dead #eraser #inches #just

Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#down #fantasies #hankering #having #hurrying

Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory! ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

#breaking #consequences #decision #disastrous #explore

The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#down #edit #everything #get #hits