#pencil

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#fingers #i #letter #long #long time

Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past. ↗

— Robert A. M. Stern

#our #past #pencils #responsibility

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#divorce #evidence #infidelity #marriage #pencils

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#another #beginning #book #exercise #him

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

Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil. ↗

— Grace Darling

#exaggerated #illustrations #inflated #pen #pencil

I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old. ↗

— Robert Indiana

#art #back #children #crayons #exposure

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

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage. ↗

— Robert McNamara

#any #computer #does #judgment #literacy