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Sketching Quotes
On the first marks that become finished work.
This page's sketching quotes trace how early habits shape careers, from a designer who started sketching dresses at eight to another who began with an imagined aircraft, both rooted in Art.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.
- Drawing
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I don't use names or captions for my many portraits of politicians and authors for newspapers. The drawing has to be self-explanatory, so I spend a lot of time sketching to find an idea and an angle that is clear.
- Myself
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I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which I imagined myself piloting.
- Fabrics
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My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketching to sampling and fitting.
- Painting
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Sketching is like dancing. It's process as much as product. You can turn your head off and just sort of dissolve into the now. Doing a giant, super thought-out painting is the opposite of that.
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I would like to be known as an 'artist'. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. I'm interested in all of those things.
- Acting Classes
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I explored the arts in general; I took painting classes and sketching classes and acting classes and all sorts of different things.
- Art
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Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.
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A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
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I always craft my words to the point where I think and hope they're perfect before I ever begin sketching.
- Fashion
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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.
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Design has long gone from tinkering and sketching of auteurs in isolation to a powerful catalyzer of growth.
- Galleries
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- Nov 07, 2020