Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.
Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene.
There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.
Design has long gone from tinkering and sketching of auteurs in isolation to a powerful catalyzer of growth.
The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections.
I studied to be an architect. And I find tremendous similarities between building a company and the design process. Businesses have to do their planning on the fly in a fashion similar to an architect sketching.
I always craft my words to the point where I think and hope they're perfect before I ever begin sketching.
One of the best places for a shy person to meet people is in a coffee shop. If you are a reader, bring a book and read it there - that gives a guy something to ask you about. Same goes for sketching, writing, or any hobby you can take with you.
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
I explored the arts in general; I took painting classes and sketching classes and acting classes and all sorts of different things.
