Pencils Quotes - Page 11

• My memory is certainly in my hands. I can remember things only if I have a pencil and I can write with it and I can play with it. ... I think your hand concentrates for you. I don't know why it should be so.

  Rebecca West

  Memories, Writing, Thinking

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• Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Taken, Hands

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.142, Ravenio Books

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• What does a river like the Vistula carry away with it? Everything that goes to pieces: wood, glass, pencils, pacts ... chairs, bones, and sunsets too. What had long been forgotten rose to memory, floating on its back or stomach, with the help of the Vistula.

  Gunter Grass

  Memories, Sunset, Glasses

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• I could buy myself paper, a pen, a pencil and a brush and could create pictures whenever and wherever I wanted. ... That evening, in the spring of 1947, on the embankment of the Seine in Paris, at the age of thirty, I saw that it was possible to live and work in the world, and that I could participate in the exchange of ideas that was taking place all around, bound to no country.

  Peter Weiss

  Country, Spring, Ideas

  Peter Weiss (1966). “Leavetaking: And , Vanishing Point”

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• I was really relieved not to have to drag something in front of the camera; I could use a pencil and paper. A regular pencil and typing paper. That appealed to me.

  William Wegman

  Cameras, Use, Paper

  Joan Simon, William Wegman (2006). “William Wegman: Funney/strange”, p.105, Yale University Press

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• Art is the child of Nature; yes, Her darling child, in whom we trace The features of the mother's face, Her aspect and her attitude, All her majestic loveliness Chastened and softened and subdued Into a more attractive grace, And with a human sense imbued. He is the greatest artist, then, Whether of pencil or of pen, Who follows Nature.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Mother, Art, Children

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.965, Delphi Classics

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• America has had to deal with eccentric dictators in the past: Idi Amin, Muammar Qaddafi, Ming the Merciless... but now the security of the world is threatened by Kim Jong-il, a nerdy, pompadoured, platform shoe-wearer who looks like something you'd put on the end of your child's pencil.

  Jon Stewart

  Children, Past, Shoes

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• Whatever artistry may occur within the manuscript, the magic happens for me in the last draft. Whatever I have been resistant to say must finally be said. In the end, I see where my pencil has been leading me.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Magic, May, Lasts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.

  William Graham Sumner

  Men, World, Social

  William Graham Sumner (1924). “Selected Essays of William Graham Sumner”

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• When I am praying the most eloquently, I am getting the least accomplished in my prayer life. But when I stop getting eloquent and give God less theology and shut up and just gaze upward and wait for God to speak to my heart He speaks with such power that I have to grab a pencil and a notebook and take notes on what God is saying to my heart.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Notebook, Prayer, Heart

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• If you sat with a pencil and jotted down all the decisions you've taken in the past week, or, if you could, over your lifetime, you would realize that almost all of them have had asymmetric payoff, with one side carrying a larger consequence than the other. You decide principally based on fragility, not probability. Or to rephrase, You decide principally based on fragility, not so much on True/False.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Taken, Past, Decision

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• How do you get rid of hiccups? Drink water upside-down and put a pencil in your mouth. Is that possible?

  Heidi Montag

  Water, Hiccups, Mouths

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• I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

  John Philip Sousa

  Writing, Twenties, Paper

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• the other guineahen died of a broken heart and we came to New York. I used to sit at a table,drawing wings with a pencil that kept breaking and i kept remembering how your mind looked when it slept for several years,to wake up asking why. So then you turned into a photograph of somebody who’s trying not to laugh at somebody who’s trying not to cry

  e. e. cummings

  New York, Heart, Years

  E. E. Cummings (2001). “Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems of E. E. Cummings”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own.

  Anthony Marra

  Definitions, Bugs, Exclusion

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• 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.

  E. J. Hughes

  Painting, Figures

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• Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence.

  A. E. Coppard

  Loneliness, Home, Wind

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• Graffiti is linear and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. But in my paintings it's more lyrical.

  Cy Twombly

  Wall, Writing, Graffiti

  "'I work in waves'". Interview With Nicholas Serota, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2008.

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• A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.

  Howard Whitley Eves

  Math, Feelings, Intelligence

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• For thee, sweet month; the groves green liveries wear.
  If not the first, the fairest of the year;
  For thee the Graces lead the dancing hours,
  And Nature's ready pencil paints the flowers.
  When thy short reign is past, the feverish sun
  The sultry tropic fears, and moves more slowly on.

  John Dryden

  Sweet, Flower, Moving

  John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “The works of John Dryden now first collected ...”, p.273

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• I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score.

  John Betjeman

  Visions Of The Future, Towers, Fields

  John Betjeman (2005). “Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman: An Anthology of Betjeman's Religious Verse”, p.177, A&C Black

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• One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.

  John Cage

  Mistake, Writing, Years

  John Cage (2011). “Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition”, Wesleyan University Press

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• My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.

  Donald Knuth

  Writing, Style, Machines

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• I have had the irreplaceable opportunity of learning my profession with the proper tools, the most important of which is not a pencil or a typewriter, but the necessary time to think before using them.

  Moss Hart

  Time, Opportunity, Thinking

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• If you do not love what you do, if you are not appropriately grateful for the chance to create something magical each time you sit down at the computer or with a pencil and paper in hand, somewhere along the way your writing will betray you.

  Terry Brooks

  Grateful, Writing, Hands

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.165, Del Rey

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