"Drawing takes time. A line has time in…" — David Hockney
"Drawing takes time. A line has time in it"
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170 Quotes by David Hockney
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If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.
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OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a…
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All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
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The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a…
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Faces are the most interesting things we see
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I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever,
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I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.
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It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for…
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In one gallery they actually had a notice which said No Sketching. How obnoxious! I said, How do you think…
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In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are…
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It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had…
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I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not…
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I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't…
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When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into…
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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
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My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.
— John James Audubon
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The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year…
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I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The…
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One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's…
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become…
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
— John Berger
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I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.
— Victoria Beckham
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