I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Dawn is about luminosity and so is the iPhone... The little drawings of the dawn are done while I'm still in bed...… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well,… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Until I saw my drawings replayed on the iPad, I'd never seen myself draw. Someone watching me would be concentrating on the… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I thought the iPhone was great, but this takes it to a new level - simply because it's eight times the size… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor.… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
You can't believe any picture nowadays, if it's digital. You can't really believe. If you see me shaking hands with Mr. [Barack] Obama, it… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees,… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Until I saw my drawings replayed on the iPad, I'd never seen myself draw. Someone watching me would be concentrating on the exact moment,… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
You always need a bit of low-tech.You always need a pair of scissors, it seems to me. You can do better things… The high-tech,… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
In fact, I'm a bit of a slob, but I've always said my excuse, I have a higher sense of order, I can see… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
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