David Hockney Quotes

While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

Any plan is better than no plan.

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

Writing is sort of like chess for me. You have to think carefully before you move, thinking, planning.

I like to take the floor apart mentally. I like to visualize an opponent going for you.

I'm the kind of person who visualizes things before doing them.

Storytelling enables us to play out decisions before we make them, to plan routes before we take them, to work out the campaign before we start the war, to rehearse the phrases we're going to use to please or placate our wives and husbands.

I like the creative aspect of developing a project.

In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.

I think if you want to do a thing properly you have to take a lot of care. I've always found it's easier to draw comics if you know clearly in your head what you're drawing, rather than if you try and make it up as you go along.

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

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

To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.

That's what writing is: it's imagining that you can make a world. That's what basketball is, too: it's imagining the game as a world.

I have combinations, and I work on my combinations all the time.

I see the game differently than some guys. I'm always reading the next move.

I enjoy being creative.

Actually, one of the fascinating things that I've learned playing chess is that the way you play chess is kind of like the way you live your life.

Leverage your time more by spending a little more time every day imagining and a lot less time every day doing. Do a little more imagining and a little more less doing. Until eventually most of what's happening is happening in the cool, calm, anticipatory state. Just imagine yourself into the successes, and watch what happens. Imagine a little more and act a little less.

That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.

Try drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination.

I usually go in ahead of time, like at a rehearsal, or a meeting, and tell them, "It may appear that I'm going to go haywire, but I'm not." I always map out what I'm going to do. Still, a lot of it is improvised.

Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.