3 David Hockney Quotes on Drawing

David Hockney quotes on drawing

2. Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about, he thought of them as working drawings. I understand what he was doing: discovering what's there. And then when you come to use line, if you know what you're looking at, it's much easier to make the line meaningful, to find a linear solution to what you want to depict.

3. What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw.

19. Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look.