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What does it mean?
Hockney equates learning to draw with learning to observe the world.
In plain terms
Teaching drawing teaches people how to look at things.
What can you take from it?
Drawing trains observation skills.

Where it applies

  • art classes
  • skill building
  • creative work

Putting it to work

  • practice observation
  • teach sight
  • draw regularly

Questions to consider

  • What does it mean to really look?
  • How does drawing change seeing?

Another view

Not all drawing instruction focuses on looking.

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