Graphite Quotes

I could write about a pencil if I wanted to. You just take it back deep enough, all the way back to the tree it came from.

I always write in pencil, so I can erase.

I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections.

What really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.

I probably use more grays than any other artist in the history of art.

With pencil, you can always erase.

Diamond, for all its great beauty, is not nearly as interesting as the hexagonal plane of graphite. It is not nearly as interesting because we live in a three-dimensional space, and in diamond, each atom is surrounded in all three directions in space by a full coordination.

Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I was simply filing them down and rubbing some graphite on the spikes. I thought I would run more effectively.

Graphene is a single plane of graphite that has to be pulled out of bulk graphite to show its amazing properties.

Somebody was using the pencil.