"Teaching people to draw is teaching people to…" — David Hockney

"Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look"

— David Hockney

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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.
OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a…
All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a…
Faces are the most interesting things we see
I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever,
I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.
It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for…
In one gallery they actually had a notice which said No Sketching. How obnoxious! I said, How do you think…
In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are…
It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had…
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'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in… — Billie Joe Armstrong
I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw. — Margaret Atwood
I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody… — Margaret Atwood
Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn… — Saint Augustine
All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any… — David Bailey
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil. — Balthus
I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals. — Lynda Barry
I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them… — Lynda Barry
The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me.… — Drew Barrymore
I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
I would sometimes sit in a crowded restaurant, and say, 'You know, I'm the only person in this restaurant who… — Scott Adams
I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The… — Scott Adams

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