True to Life

"About sixty years ago," he concluded, "most educated people could draw in quite a skillful way. Which meant they could tell other people about certain experiences in a certain way. Their visual delights could be expressed...Today people don't draw very much. They use the camera. My point is, they're not truly, perhaps, expressing what it was they were looking at – what it was about it that delighted them – and how that delight forced them to make something of it, to share the experience, to make it vivid to somebody else. If the few skills that are needed in drawing are not treated seriously by everybody, eventually it will die. And then all that will be left is the photographic ideal which we believe too highly of."

Lawrence Weschler
True to Life: Twenty-Five Years of Conversation with David Hockney