50 Doodle Quotes About Classic Boredom-Drawing

We’ve all doodled at one time or another, so everyone can relate to these Doodle quotes!

Doodling is a drawing created while a person has their attention directed towards something else.

Many people doodle when bored, when stressed, nervous, or when feeling creative and just need to release some creative energy.

Doodles are usually simple drawings that are a release for the artist, whether you are a professional or not.

Although many people may think of doodling as applying to children, it applies to adults also and can refer to lines, circles, or scribbles instead of actual pictures.

Next time you are stressed or trying to focus, pick up a pencil, let yourself doodle, and see what you come up with.

Take a look at these Doodle Quotes to learn more about this casual drawing.

Best Doodle Quotes for Artists

Enjoy these quotes on art and doodling to get your creative juices flowing.

1. “There are no rules to creativity.” — Laura Jaworksi

2. “Drawing is the root of everything.” — Vincent Van Gogh

3. “Drawing takes time. A line has time in it.” — David Hockney

4. “Art is the stored honey of the human soul.” — Theodore Dreiser

5. “Drawing is an exercise for a restless imagination.” — Tim Burton

6. “Art should be something that liberates your soul.” — Keith Haring

7. “To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw.” — Andrew Loomis

8. “There is no must in art because art is free.” — Wassily Kandinsky

9. “In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.” — Pablo Picasso

10. “The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.” — Julia Cameron

Doodle Quotes to Inspire Creativity

Creativity and art go hand-in-hand, as shown in the following quotes.

11. “Go to your studio and make stuff.” — Fred Babb

12. “Inhale possibility, exhale creativity.” — Laura Jaworski

13. “Creativity is contagious; pass it on.” — Albert Einstein

14. “Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.” — Cecil B. DeMille

15. “Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.” — Ray Bradbury

16. “This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” — Henry David Thoreau

17. “Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.” — Bill Moyers

18. “Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.” — Earl Nightingale

19. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” — Maya Angelou

20. “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” — Thomas Merton

Drawing and Doodle Quotes

Drawing can take many forms, as shown in the following quotes.

21. “Drawing isn’t an artistic process; drawing is a thinking process.” — Dan Roam

22. “If I knew what the pictures was going to be like, I wouldn’t make it.” — Cindy Sherman

23. “We all have 10,000 bad drawings in us. The sooner we get them out, the better.” — Walt Stanchfield

24. “It just comes out of my subconscious. If you asked me to draw you a doodle, I couldn’t do it.” — Lois Frankel

25. “I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle because I’m a very uncoordinated athlete.” — Kate Voegele

26. “If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.” — Chris Riddell

27. “Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber so that they are always ready for serious work.” — Charles E. Burchfield

28. “I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I’m not a trained artist, I couldn’t sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone.” — Rene Auberjonois

29. “A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in it, doodle in it, write notes in it, and I put pictures in it.” — John Varvatos

30. “I want the viewer to enjoy the art, and I want the whole family to have something to react to. I hope that folks go home and do a bit of doodling and creating on their own.” — Nathan Sawaya

Quotes About People Who Doodle

Doodling is an integral part of the creative process for many, as shown in these quotes.

31. “Art is my life, and my life is art.” — Yoko Ono

32. “I doodle all the time, even if I’m on the train.” — Dascha Polanco

33. “We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.” — Bob Ross

34. “Meanwhile, I was doodling pictures of vampiric cougars.” — Jenny Lawson

35. “I do recall how I got the ideas for some of my books. Many of them are a result of doodling.” — Bill Peet

36. “I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.” — Kevin Nealon

37. “For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, I’d lose the joy.” — Matthew Ashford

38. “I’ve been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or color for that matter.” — Devdutt Pattanaik

39. “Many years after animating Ariel, I continue to draw her, doodling as I talk on the phone, absent-mindedly passing time in a sketchbook.” — Glen Keane

40. “I doodle a lot and often get my best ideas with a pencil in my hand while I’m doodling. The problem is, sometimes I lose my doodles, and that’s bad!” — Judy Blume

Additional Doodle Quotes

Here are a few more doodle quotes to enjoy.

41. “I think that each one of us is born with creativity.” — Maya Angelou

42. “An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.” — Charles Horton Cooley

43. “Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take risks.” — Mark Rothko

44. “I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It’s my way of stirring up my imagination to see what I find hidden in my head.” — Maurice Sendak

45. “When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have to discipline myself quite fiercely if I want to do some painting that’s worthwhile. Otherwise, you’re just doodling.” — John Hurt

46. “I’m pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them.” — Freddie Highmore

47. “When you doodle an image that captures the essence of an idea, you not only remember it, but you also help other people understand and act on it—which is generally the point of meetings in the first place.” — Tom Wujec

48. “I’ve never felt particularly ambitious or driven, that’s for sure, although I like to create stuff, whether it’s a little doodle, a drawing, a small painting or a movie or a piece of music, so I suppose I’m driven by that.” — Johnny Depp

49. “I’ll never forget that little apple box I stood on because I couldn’t reach the microphone. My name was written on it and it’s sitting at Diana Ross’s house now. She has all my little doodling papers I would draw and write.” — Michael Jackson

50. “I love jotting down ideas for my blog, so I doodle or take notes on all kinds of stuff that inspires me: the people I meet, boutiques I visit, a florist that just gave me a great idea for an interior-design project, things like that.” — Maria Sharapova

Why is Doodling a Good Thing?

Surprisingly, there are several benefits of doodling.

It can release negative energy and is also effective when learning new things.

Doodling is not as distracting to the brain as daydreaming, so while you are learning new things and doodling, it can keep you from daydreaming, and therefore, you will remember more.

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