#dr

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

— David Hockney

#actually #draw #drawing #i #like

Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that. ↗

— David Hockney

#being #believable #draw #means #people

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make. ↗

— David Hockney

#chess #drawing #eventually #like #make

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache. ↗

— David Hockney

#drawing #eyes #makes #see #still

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 and volume - there's a flatness to them. ↗

— David Hockney

#camera #done #drawings #i #i can

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning. ↗

— David Hockney

#day #draw #every #every day #flowers

I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay. ↗

— David Hockney

#drawing #how #i #i am #i see

I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose. ↗

— David Hockney

#artist #been #bring #drive #family

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 teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard. ↗

— David Hockney

#almost #always #aware #being #drawing

West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things. ↗

— David Hockney

#dramatic #quite #things #west #yorkshire