David Hockney Quotes

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.

I wasn't a very good draughtsman.

Growing up, I enjoyed drawing, but it was always in the service of an idea. I drew all the time, and I enjoyed making.

I draw badly. Photography's much easier than drawing.

Perspective was always important. There are some cartoonists who can stand at the foot of a building looking straight up and they'll capture it perfectly. And then there are those of us who do the same drawing and it's the goofiest-looking thing in the world. But after a while I guess you just learn what you're capable of and what you can and can't do.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine.

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

I draw whatever hits me.

I like to draw my storyboards myself.

I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.

I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

I have no artistic training - as you might have guessed from all the stick figures! - and there are a few things I have a really hard time drawing. I think the one that comes up the most is airplanes. Big airliners have such a weird wing shape, and I always have to redraw them 20 times before they're even recognizable.

I'm not particularly good at doodling. I'll doodle the same face over and over again.

My wife will go, 'You know, you're drawing a shoe right now.' I do that all the time.

Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.

I have sketched since a young age, so there's always been an artistic side, a visual side to my personality.

The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge of his picture is just as interesting as the middle, one can only guess at the existence of a whole, and the view presented seems chosen by chance.

Drawing is the root of everything.

I'm not that good of a drawer. I don't know how people just draw stuff out of their head. I'm always creating schemes. If I have to draw someone sitting in a chair, I have to go find a chair, sit in it, and take a picture of myself sitting in it.

I can draw really well.

My mom was an artist, and she had this amazing ability to transform everything into something beautiful.