Top 553 Etch A Sketch Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I sketch and paint a lot, but that's only for myself.

A sketch is just a mini movie.

When I wake, a piece of sharp green glass on the floor is cutting into my hand and I know it's a sign. I etch a letter on my hand; put it on top so I can see the jagged edges bleeding out; S. S is for sorrow, for all I don't say. S is for sick now, my punishing ways.

I never travel without my sketch book.

I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may. But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought.

A sketch will not serve more than one state of mind & will not serve to drink at again & again — in a sketch there is nothing but the one state of mind — that which you were in at the time.

Errors accumulate in the sketch and compound in the model.

Man has the right . . . to play as he will . . . to think what he will: to speak what he will: to write what he will: to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will: to dress as he will.

I was a big fan of sketch comedy and cartoons growing up.

In your 20s, you're just a sketch of what you think you're trying to be.

I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that.

Standups have all the talk shows, but you never see a sketch group on a talk show. Even on so-called variety shows, if you do see a sketch group or character, it's written specifically for that variety show and usually written around the host of the show or a celebrity.

We come from a live background of sketch improv and standup.

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

I don't have any type of sketch-comedy or stand-up background.

The Internet is a sketch show.

I don't own a camera, so I travel with a police sketch artist.

I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.

I did sketch comedy with a troupe at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

The essential thing is to etch movements in the sky, movements so still they leave no trace. The essential thing is simplicity. / That is why the long path to perfection is horizontal.

The initial sketch is always an emotion, not a concept.

Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.

If all we are allowed is hours, minutes, I want to be able to etch each of them on to my memory with exquisite clarity so that I can recall them at moments like this, when my very soul feels blackened.

The first piece of art that I ever bought - when I could afford it - was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean.

And that's the thing about our show: what are they going to do put on the poster? I don't know. It's always easier when you have someone like Cedric the Entertainer where you can go, "You know this guy. You love this guy. Watch his sketch show." And then people tune in and go, "I though I knew that guy. I don't love that guy in a sketch show."

Having made up my mind, I went to see Steve [Jobs]. I brought a hand-drawn sketch with me, and I said, "Please make something like this." He said, "Don't show me such an ugly design sketch." But he also said, "You've got the right idea. I totally agree that the time has come when we can make the ultimate mobile machine."

I never set out to do a sketch show.

There's a sketch at every turn.

When night falls over Washington, D.C., memorials, public buildings, and broad avenues become ethereal shapes in soft light and shadow. Floodlights, piercing the darkness, etch familiar landmarks in silver against a velvet sky. Unsuspected definition of form and contour is revealed.

Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!

We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren't always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.

A sketch of a man facing to the right.

A sketch show by its very nature is hit and miss.

I'm more of a sketch guy than a standup.

Switch off the mind and let the heart decide who you were meant to be Flick to remote and let the body glide There is no enemy! Etch out a future of your own design Well tailored to your needs Then fan the flame and keep the dream alive ... ...the future is roses! Roses!

My face becomes a Picasso sketch, my body slicing into pieces.

An incomplete sketch superbly executed is power.

Everybody needs some good sketch comedy.

I did sketch comedy for years. Ive always enjoyed it.

Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind.

I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections.

'Reno' was originally going to be a sketch show, with the cops as a transitional element.

You wouldn't know how to perform a sketch that you don't find funny. You just couldn't do it.

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

For myself, the way that I learned comedy was doing it live for four years, and only after doing sketch for four years did I feel confident enough to be like, 'Okay, I feel good about starting to put stuff on the Internet where it lives forever.' As opposed to one time at a college sketch show where it bombs and we never speak of it again.

The first piece of art that I ever bought-when I could afford it-was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean.

I grew up surrounded by sketch comedy.

You only feel as good as your last sketch.

I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing.

We were supposed to grow old together, Dolores. Have kids. Take walks under old trees. I wanted to watch the lines etch themselves into your flesh and know when each and every one of them appeared. Die together.

I pray to the shrine of 'Mr. Show.' It saved sketch comedy.

A good sketch is better than a long speech.

Besides gardening, I love to sketch and to sing.

I'll go in a minute to see a sketch show.

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

So many designers only sketch and leave pattern-making to others. Pattern-making is important so you know the structure. Then if someone tells me, 'I can't make a pattern from that sketch,' I can tell them, 'I will make it' and then they are quiet. If I can't make it, I don't design it.

A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook, that the sketch of the angry professor had been made in anger. Anger had snatched my pencil while I dreamt. But what was anger doing there? Interest, confusion, amusement, boredom--all these emotions I could trace and name as they succeeded each other throughout the morning. Had anger, the black snake, been lurking among them? Yes, said the sketch, anger had.

When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.

It's hard to write a comedy sketch.

When I teach sketch writing, there's still a beginning, middle and end.