A crayon is a colorful drawing stick, found in different colors and sizes. The name “crayon” originally meant “chisel” in Old French.
These drawing tools are made of materials like plastic, wood, and wax. People of all ages use crayons for art, writing, and note-taking.
You can find various kinds, such as pencil crayons, pastels, water-soluble crayons, and colored pencils.
Here are some of the best Crayon quotes.
Crayon Quotes
Our attitudes are the crayons that color our world. ~ Allen Klein.
At the end of the world the sunset is like a child smashing a pack of crayons into God’s face. ~ Craig Stone.
Stop counting crayons, just draw pictures. ~ Mark Scharenbroich.
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. ~ Robert Fulghum.
Never invest in anything that cannot be illustrated with a crayon. ~ Peter Lynch.
I must have been very young, but I have a clear memory of drawing on a cream brick wall… with wax crayons. ~ Robert Ingpen.
Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his. ~ Jonathan Lethem.
Everyone has a colorful life. You just have to get out your crayons. ~ Benay Nordby.
If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone. ~ Robert Fulghum.
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. ~ Louis L’Amour
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. ~ Joni Mitchell
My skin is kind of sort of brownish pinkish yellowish white. My eyes are greyish blueish green, but I’m told they look orange in the night. My hair is reddish blondish brown, but its silver when its wet, and all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet. ~ Shel Silverstein
I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old. ~ Robert Indiana.
Best Crayon Quotes
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. ~ Hugh Magnus MacLeod of MacLeod
I like garage band for writing because you only have crayons and there are only five crayons in the box. Your choices are limited and I find that to be very good for me. ~ Erin McKeown
Obviously, sometimes I just feel like looking like a box of crayons. ~ Brad Goreski
I’ve been drawing as long as I can remember. I think all children draw as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing. ~ Adam Hughes
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. ~ Allen Klein
Don’t be afraid to use all the colors in the crayon box. ~ RuPaul
He witnessed a kaleidoscopic multi-coloured horizon through his mother’s eyes as she opened the colouring book and proved that broken crayons still colour. ~ Shalaka Kulkarni
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. ~ Bruno Munari
A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs. ~ Clifford Stoll
I always feel like an idiot every time I fly first class because I’m a kid. And I just sit there, and everyone’s got their newspapers and they’re on the computer, and I’m like, “Can I get a coloring book, please? Can I get some crayons?’ ~ Jennifer Lawrence
They’re only crayons. You didn’t fear them in Kindergarten, why fear them now? ~ Hugh MacLeod
I’m carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get ‘Okaaaaaay, honey.’ I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant. ~ Kristen Bell
My daughter loves to do art stuff. As a father, I like to play with her. We break out the big pads of paper and the glitter and all the stuff. She likes to do what she likes to do. I want to do something, too. So I’ve just started using her same materials – a lot of crayons, a lot of sparkle, charcoal, pencils, markers and glue. ~ Stone Gossard
Since fat crayons, I write and display chaos. My plan is damage. ~ Louis Eric Barrier
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. ~ Marya Hornbacher
Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you’re really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I’ve got a few missing. ~ John Mayer.
Quotes about Crayons
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. ~ Laurie Halse Anderson
And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet. ~ Shel Silverstein
Life is about using the whole box of crayons. ~ RuPaul
A box of new crayons! Now they are all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they all be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic. ~ Bill Watterson
You can’t be creative without criticism. If your life is without critics then maybe you are painting your life’s masterpiece with only a broken brown crayon. ~ Shannon L. Alder
We either learn to accept or we end up writing letters home with crayons. ~ Stephen King
Broken crayons still colour the same. ~ Trent Shelton
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? ~ Pablo Picasso
With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn’t get it out fast enough. And we told them to draw about the tsunami. ~ Connie Sellecca
I consider myself a crayon… I may not be your favorite color but one day you’ll need me to complete your picture. ~ Lauryn Hill
Pink gives me reason to love every colour in life. ~ Anthony T. Hincks
I used my daughter’s crayons for each main character. One end of the wallpaper was the beginning of the story, and the other end was the end, and then there was all that middle part, which was the middle. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
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. ~ Barbara Corcoran
Leave me in a room with some crayons and I’ll draw on the wall. ~ Marilyn Manson
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. ~ Max Lucado
If you were a crayon, what color would you most like to make out with? ~ Hank Green
But of course there’s no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It’s the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons ~ Dave Eggers
I hope nobody took the Razzle Dazzle Rose. ~ James Frey.
Top Crayon Quotes
It’s Ms. Hilda’s magic drawer! That’s where Ms. Hilda finds everything we need. Crayons, papers, glitters, candies, everything! ~ Tamar Bobokhidze
Deep inside, we are all artists who can’t find the crayons that were given to us in playschool. ~ Neeraj Agnihotri
Never invest in any idea you can’t illustrate with a crayon. ~ Peter Lynch
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. ~ Claude Monet
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. ~ Robert Fulghum
In kindergarten, we had this Irish Catholic headmistress called Sister Leonie, and I remember she would tell us, say, to put the crayons in the box. I remember thinking, ‘Why is everyone finding this so easy? Why should the crayons be in the box?’ ~ Binyavanga Wainaina
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
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. ~ Gary Oldman
If a restaurant offers crayons, I always take them and color throughout the meal. It beats talking to the people I came to dinner with. ~ Stephan Pastis
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. ~ Amanda Harlech
Ever since I was very young, as far back as I can remember, I have loved making pictures. I knew even as a child that, when I grew up, I would be an artist of some kind. The lovely feeling of my pencil touching paper, a crayon making a star shape in my sketchbook, or my brush dipping into bright and colorful paints — these things affect me as joyfully today as they did all those years ago. ~ Eric Carle
I think all children draw, as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing. ~ Adam Hughes
When we distributed the paper and crayons, they were fighting over the blue crayon. Everyone wanted to start with the blue, and that was the water. One drawing shows the trees under water. I was really moved. ~ Connie Sellecca
History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever. ~ Emilie Autumn
Used to be marketing was viewed as the people with crayons and scissors who did creative work. Now it’s seen as central to driving growth. ~ Jim Speros.
Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons. ~ Al Hirschfeld.
I was always doing paintings. I actually started painting with oil paints when I was four years old. Not crayons, not pencils and that kid of stuff. I’d paint birds. Anything that moved, stuff like that. ~ Paul Laffoley.
I was born in a place humans call central Africa, in a dense rain forest so beautiful, no crayons could ever do it justice. ~ Katherine Applegate.
Yes, I wrote that for you, who can’t sort out lie from lay no matter how often I explain it – crayons and perfume – you still don’t get it. ~ John Geddes.
We are all born artists. If you have kids, you know what I mean. Almost everything kids do is art. They draw with crayons on the wall. ~ Kim Young-ha.
