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I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.
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When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
David Hockney
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I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.
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California is always in my mind.
David Hockney -
To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.
David Hockney -
Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.
David Hockney -
The moment rules over everything.
David Hockney -
I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
David Hockney
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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
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I'm fed up with being bossed around.
David Hockney -
I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.
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But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well.
David Hockney -
Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'
David Hockney -
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
David Hockney
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Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.
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Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.
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My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
David Hockney -
I paint what I like, when I like and where I like.
David Hockney -
A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.
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I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.
David Hockney