Doodling Quotes

• For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, I'd lose the joy.

  Matthew Ashford

  Joy, Want, Ifs

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• Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work.

  Charles E. Burchfield

  Art, Mean, Hands

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• I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

  Rebecca Miller

  Beach, Art, Drinking

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• I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It's my way of stirring up my imagination to see what I find hidden in my head. I call the results dream pictures, fantasy sketches, and even brain-sharpenin g exercises.

  Maurice Sendak

  Dream, Exercise, Imagination

  "Graeme Base adds music to his magical illustrations", www.cnn.com. September 1, 1999.

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• I'm one of those people with restless hands. I need to be doodling, or biting my nails, or making socks.

  Vera Brosgol

  Hands, People, Nails

  Interview with Elissa Gershowitz and Katie Bircher, www.hbook.com. September 12, 2016.

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• I do recall how I got the ideas for some of my books. Many of them are a result of doodling.

  Bill Peet

  Book, Ideas, Results

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• I'm trying to inspire as many people as I can. I want the viewer to enjoy the art and I want the whole family to have something to react to. I hope that folks go home and do a bit of doodling and creating on their own.

  Nathan Sawaya

  Art, Home, Creating

  Source: londoncalling.com

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• I don't believe in writer's block. There are good days when you're writing and less good days. I've learned that if it's not happening to walk away and return later. I doodle a lot and often get my best ideas with a pencil in my hand while I'm doodling. The problem is, sometimes I lose my doodles and that's bad!

  Judy Blume

  Block, Believe, Good Day

  "Judy Blume’s Online Chat for the New York Public Library". www.judyblume.com. November 19, 2002.

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• And as I was sort of doodling, I was thinking, surprise and fear - probably fairly similar so let's just lose surprise. And that left us with five.

  Pete Docter

  Thinking, Surprise, Left

  "It's All In Your Head: Director Pete Docter Gets Emotional In 'Inside Out'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 10, 2015.

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• Meanwhile, I was doodling pictures of vampiric cougars.

  Jenny Lawson

  Cougars

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.141, Pan Macmillan

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• But when I was a kid, I would look at the paper next to the phone and I would think to myself, "I want to do that." So I started doing that. [doodling]

  Jeff Vespa

  Kids, Thinking, Phones

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One day, when I was doing well in class and had finished my lessons, I was sitting there trying to analyze the game of tic-tac-toe... The teacher came along and snatched my papers on which I had been doodling... She did not realize that analyzing tic-tac-toe can lead into dozens of non-trivial mathematical questions.

  Martin Gardner

  Teacher, Science, Games

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• I'll never forget that little apple box I stood on because I couldn't reach the microphone. My name was written on it and it's sitting at Diana Ross's house now. She has all my little doodling papers I would draw and write.

  Michael Jackson

  Writing, Names, Apples

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• The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have to discipline myself quite fiercely if I want to do some painting that's worthwhile. Otherwise, you're just doodling. It's much easier when you're just told what you have to do.

  John Hurt

  Jobs, Self, Discipline

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• I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I am trying to communicate through my writing. My images are like drawings in a science text book.

  Devdutt Pattanaik

  Book, Passion, Writing

  Sunday Hindu Interview, devdutt.com. November 1, 2009.

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• I think the consensus among our generation and people younger than us is that we do have a defining challenge in the moment, so I do like being involved in something bigger than the finger-doodling I do in art. It stimulates your brain in certain ways.

  Edward Norton

  Art, Thinking, Our Generation

  "Interview: 'Leaves of Grass' Star Edward Norton and Director Tim Blake Nelson". Interview with Landon Palmer, filmschoolrejects.com. March 28, 2010.

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• I believe I love my guitar more than the others love theirs. For John and Paul, songwriting is pretty important and guitar playing is a means to an end. While they're making up new tunes I can thoroughly enjoy myself just doodling around with a guitar for a whole evening. I'm fascinated by new sounds I can get from different instruments I try out. I'm not sure that makes me particularly musical. Just call me a guitar fanatic instead, and I'll be satisfied.

  George Harrison

  Believe, Mean, Guitar

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• Many years after animating Ariel, I continue to draw her, doodling as I talk on the phone, absent-mindedly passing time in a sketchbook. She has become a part of me and yet now belongs to the world and generations to come.

  Glen Keane

  Phones, Years, Generations

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• When we were done and not picked up to series yet, they wanted us to read lots of writers. I was like, "No." Then we finally were picked up. It is hard not to start thinking of story lines. It is like doodling.

  Harry Elfont

  Thinking, Stories, Done

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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