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Drawing Quotes by David Hockney
- It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.
- Drawing takes time. A line has time in it
- People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's…
- We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music.
- 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, but…
- Dawn is about luminosity and so is the iPhone... The little drawings of the dawn are done while I'm still in bed... If you're in…
- Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about... I…
- I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I…
- 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,…
- When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
- Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
- Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
- I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.
- I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
- I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.
- Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?
- I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the…
- I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight…
More Drawing Quotes
- I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot… — Margaret Atwood
- When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. — John James Audubon
- My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish. — John James Audubon
- The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. — John James Audubon
- One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil. — Balthus
- I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven. — Iain Banks
- I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words… — Scott Adams
- One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's something about… — Scott Adams
- Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. — John Berger
- For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true. — John Berger
- I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does. — Victoria Beckham