Artist Quote by David Hockney

I'm a believer that you shouldn't really talk about the drawing until you're done with the drawing.

— Josh Trank

In my writing class, we never, ever talk about the writing - ever. We never address a story that's been read. I also won't…

— Lynda Barry

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

Drawing takes time. A line has time in it

— David Hockney

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.

— David Hockney

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

— David Hockney

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...…

— David Hockney

Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing…

— Gunter Grass

There are instances where lines in my work are borrowed or stolen from sources, mainly from books, or they become my own versions. A…

— Raymond Pettibon

Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as…

— Adam Gopnik

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should…

— William Strunk, Jr

There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.

— Toni Morrison