Drawing is rather like ...

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
 David Hockney

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

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You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.
 David Hockney
I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
 David Hockney
It's a myth that if you're liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they might be your mother, your brother, your uncle and your aunt.
 David Hockney
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.
 David Hockney
Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.
 David Hockney