#drawing

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity. ↗

— George Grosz

#both #clarity #closely #drawings #every

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. ↗

— William Strunk, Jr.

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I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

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Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

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

— David Hockney

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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

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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

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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

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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

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