David Hockney Quotes
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I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.
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The moment rules over everything.
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We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.
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I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.
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But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.
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I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.
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As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.
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Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
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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.
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I've realized that I can do performances.
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Tragedy is a literary concept.
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I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
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It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
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I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.
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I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.
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My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
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I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
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I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.
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Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?
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I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.
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I've started painting much more freely, and faster. I think it's working in the theatre that did it. You know what the Glyndebourne scene-painters said about my The Magic Flute? They said they had to wear sunglasses to paint it.
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Interviewer: Love is certainly at the center of tolerance. They're intertwined, in a certain way. It helps you appreciate difference.Hockney: Yes. And that's probably why I do portraits. Everybody's different; they look different, and are different. Maybe deep, deep down we're all the same. But on the surface we seem to be different, don't we?
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I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close.
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You must plan to be spontaneous.