David Hockney Quotes
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I'm fed up with being bossed around.
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Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.
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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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Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
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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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East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.
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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 was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.
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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've realized that I can do performances.
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I'm a natural sceptic.
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I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.
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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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My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
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I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.
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I value my friends.
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It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.
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Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
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I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.
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Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.
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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 had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.
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I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
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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.