David Hockney Quotes

When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.

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.

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

Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist.

I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to realize as sculpture... And I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.

Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

I paint daily with watercolors on 5-by-7-inch pads that are small enough for me to take them everywhere.

On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.

I didn't have the time to literally write and draw the strip at the same time.

I start a picture and I finish it.

There's something fascinating about watching artists draw.

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

I'm really interested in making a mark on a paper and letting that be cursive shorthand for an idea - that's the origin of cartooning.

A sketch is just a mini movie.

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

Photographs are two-dimensional. I work in four dimensions.

I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw... bringing a blank white canvas to life was fascinating.

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

I'm not a painter by any stretch of the imagination; I'm a dyed-in-the-wool traditional illustrator, and I begin with black and white. If I need colour, I add it over the top. There's a calligraphic element to it... it's about the texture of lines on the page.

I love art, in particular, paintings. I have, well, a lot.

For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.