#sketches

Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate. ↗

— John Howe

#away #before #eager #i #ideas

Sketches have characters, exits, entrances and are vastly different. ↗

— David Cross

#different #entrances #exits #sketches #vastly

Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62. ↗

— Marc Davis

#direction #done #early #early sixties #find

I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have to draw on. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#doing #draw #each #film #held

My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#attention #blots #books #covered #draws

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#been #finished #framed #into #like

When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#art #aware #draw #fully #fun

It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. The sketches, all of them, want to become real. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

#always #become #before #choices #crossroads

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

I carry a notebook full of sketches of pictures I want to take - they are really scruffy sketches, but at least I am going out there with a clear objective. ↗

— Nigel Dennis

#carry #clear #full #going #i