Crayon Quotes

Broken crayons still colour the same

We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.

Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world.

Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.

Life is about using the whole box of crayons.

Survive first. Figure out crayon drawing of destiny later.

Actually, all education is self-education.

A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.

Stop counting crayons, just draw pictures.

Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please.

A good organization is like a box of crayons.

You need different colors of the spectrum, but all the crayons should fit in the box.

Leave me in a room with some crayons and I'll draw on the wall.

History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.

And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.

When drawing the sun, try to have on hand colored paper, chalk, felt-tip markers, crayons, pencils, ball point pens. You can draw a sun with any one of them. Also remember that sunset and dawn are the back and front of the same phenomenon: when we are looking at the sunset, the people over there are looking at the dawn.

Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?

I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

Kids are without a doubt the most suspicious diners in the world.

They will eat mud (raw or baked) rocks, paste, crayons, ball-point pens, moving goldfish, cigarette butts, and cat food. Try to coax a little beef stew into their mouths and they look at you like a puppy when you stand over him with the Sunday paper rolled up.

Don't be afraid to use all the colors in the crayon box.

Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon.

A happiness weapon. A Beauty Bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.

Big flashy things have my name written all over them. Well... not yet, give me time and a crayon.

Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.

When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it was nice. The fact that the thought pictures were always crayon enlargements of life made it even nicer to listen to.

My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold.

A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.

Down in Texas, Rick Perry announced he will not run for reelection.

He said 'I executed one last woman, that fertilizer plant exploded, I returned abortions to back alleys where it belongs, my work here is done.' I think that's what he said, he was chewing a crayon.

For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.

The use of the right word, the exact word, is the difference between a pencil with a sharp point and a thick crayon.

You don't impress the officials at NASA with a paper airplane.

You don't boast about your crayon sketches in the presence of Picasso. You don't claim equality with Einstein because you can write 'H20.' And you don't boast about your goodness in the presence of the Perfect.

...Someone speaks in soft tones to me and says I am psychotic, but it's going to be all right. I put on my hat, unperturbed, and ask for some crayons.

If you were a crayon, what color would you most like to make out with?

I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'.

I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.

When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.

The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving.