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How can Blair fight a war on terror? Terror is not an ideology or an army; terror is a technique.
David Hockney -
Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
David Hockney
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It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.
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 -
I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
David Hockney -
People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.
David Hockney -
I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.
David Hockney -
I'm a bit of a propagandist.
David Hockney
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The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.
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I usually only draw myself in down periods. I do, actually. I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's have a look in the mirror.' When you are alone and you look in a mirror you never put on a pleasing smile. Well, you don't, do you?
David Hockney -
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.
David Hockney -
All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
David Hockney -
It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.
David Hockney -
Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.
David Hockney
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Spring is very energising to me.
David Hockney -
Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
David Hockney -
With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!
David Hockney -
I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
David Hockney -
I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.
David Hockney -
I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.
David Hockney
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I've always felt very English.
David Hockney -
Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.
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And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.
David Hockney -
Easel painting means small painting.
David Hockney