Mark Making Quotes

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.

I'm going to imprint myself on everything in this world.

I always knew I wanted to be somebody. I think that's where it begins. People decide, "I want to be somebody. I want to make a contribution. I want to leave my mark here." Then different factors contribute to how you will do that.

More important than having a romance with the object that I'm drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I am making.

Shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.

I thought the iPhone was great, but this takes it to a new level - simply because it's eight times the size of the iPhone, as big as a reasonably-sized sketchbook... Anyone who likes drawing and mark-making will like to explore new media.

I have an investment in the signifying aspects of the material as well as an understanding of antecedent bodies of work. That informs the way I make marks and make decisions.

I wanted to be looked at for the skateboarder that I was. I didn't want to be the 36-year-old skateboarder who's still holding on while owning a company at the same time. I wanted to make my mark and travel and accomplish a few things here and there and then get out.

We have to make a mark, even if it's only a scribble.

I'd always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn't.

As far as fame, the everlasting fame thing. I used to think that was important for a writer... the desire to make your mark.

For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.

I build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts.

How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill.

The world is your stage. Make your mark.