Top 239 Sketches Quotes & Sayings

It's really fun to be writing and producing your own sketches. You almost have more control.

My dad would write these sketches for me while I was at 'SNL.'

I have learned patience, for sure. Pre-publication is a long waiting game, especially for authors of picture books. We write the manuscript, sign the contract, and wait. It takes a while for the art director to find an illustrator and then the illustrator works on the sketches, and depending on those first round of sketches, it could be a few more months before you see a final illustration. I was surprised at how long it takes for all the pieces to come together.

I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches.

All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.

People get this very romantic vision of a fashion designer who in one night makes 25 sketches and in the morning throws them on the table and there are a lot of women in white aprons with the pins on the lapel and they start to grab the sketches and... It's not like that.

I've always felt, even with sketches, that if you don't care about these people, then it doesn't matter.

I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don't have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.

The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches with pencil.

Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me.

When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.

The kitchen was bright, cheerful yellow, the walls decorated with framed chalk and pencil sketches Simon and Rebecca had done in grade school. Rebecca had some drawing talent, you could tell, but Simon's sketches of people all looked like parking meters with tufts of hair.

My first improv was Second City in Chicago. Before that, I worked at - with a partner, doing comedy sketches.

My dad and I collaborate on the artwork. He does all of the design and layout. He uses my sketches and drawings or weird things to mix into it or put on the merch.

I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.

Waste not your time on broad sketches in color.

I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed.

Thomson's small oil sketches of the last years palpitate and throb. They are as direct in attack as a punch in the nose.

I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as The Royal Variety Show, performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.

I wrote comedy sketches in college.

A lot of my sketches came from thoughts, and I always just wanted to act them out.

I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.

I am always making sketches of how information should look or mapping out a marketing campaign. When I present my notes, people start responding to them. Desktop publishing makes everything look slick. When you present sketches, it helps start the dialogue and collaboration.

I started writing sketches when I was 13. I liked Vic Reeves, Fry and Laurie, and Paul Merton, and I thought you could just send sketches to the BBC, and they'd go, 'Great. We'll put these on telly.' But I gradually realised that you either had to go to university and join a club, or do standup.

I wish I still had all of my old schoolwork. I'd just have all the sketches around the schoolwork, and none of the schoolwork done. Just sketches all around. I was always doodling something.

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

When I'm stopped in the street, people want to talk about 'The Two Ronnies' and the sketches we did.

I grew up on 'S.N.L.,' doing all the sketches on the playground.

I have no idea how to do sketches, believe it or not.

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.

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

A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.

Sometimes I want to go into Saturday Night Live and rewrite some of the sketches because they're really not that good.

Cheryl's artistically inclined. She draws and sketches, but I don't know about acting.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as 'The Royal Variety Show,' performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.

All the drawings and sketches and clothes of Yves Saint Laurent in the '70s were so colorful, so bright.

Writing sketches, you're also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.

A man who fails is funny... if my sketches teach anything, it is that, for the male, sex is a snare and a delusion. What's so corrupting about that?

Most of my videos consist of fragments, one or two minutes long. They are haikus or sketches. I have thousands.

I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.' I hear, 'It needs to be better.'

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.

Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.

My biggest fear is expending the best and most exciting energy in sketches, no matter how quickly executed. I often need to empty the rubbish bin several times before regaining the fresh quality of the initial exploratory sketches.

At any comic book convention in America, you'll find aspiring cartoonists with dozens of complex plot ideas and armloads of character sketches. Only a small percentage ever move from those ideas and sketches to a finished book.

When Tim asked me to do Frankenweenie, he had his original sketches from before he did the short, of what Sparky looked like, and he drew Victor and some of the other crucial people. The remarkable thing about working with Tim is that, once he's read a script, he sketches out everybody else.

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

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

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.

I was always doodling house sketches.

Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.

Writing sketches, youre also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.

I'm not an impressionist as such, and I never will be, so the sketches where I was supposed to be a famous person probably weren't my best work.

I usually use quick sketches that I accumulated from the figure drawing classes I once instructed.

As a matter of fact, when people ask where my 'point of view' comes from, it was there in one of the first sketches we wrote for [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis.

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.

I had PubLIZity, I had Oh, Hello, I had Bobby and Farley - all of these sketches that were really these duo sketches, but the relationship between them is really what catapulted them forward. A lot of that, I think, came from Wayne and Garth, these two similar guys - they're Midwestern metal guys - but in the end, they're quite different because there's an alpha and a beta. And I think that model became very present for me on Kroll Show.

Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.

I have a lot of sketches and ideas, but when you don't use them, they get stale.

I love designers sketches, they're like poetry. A vision of an idea intended to make someone feel wonderful.