David Hockney Quotes
As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.
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Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world!
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Anything simple always interests me.
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I prefer living in color.
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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.
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When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'
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How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't. There's a hierarchy. Why do I pick out that thing, that thing, that thing?
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Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look.
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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.
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Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
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I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.
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In the end nobody knows how it's done - how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.
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In my old age, I'll be in L.A.
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I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.
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Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.
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I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.
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How can Blair fight a war on terror? Terror is not an ideology or an army; terror is a technique.
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Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.
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All art is contemporary, if it's alive. And if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
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I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.
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Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.
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People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.
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Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?
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What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
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West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.