David Hockney Quotes
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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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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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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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I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.
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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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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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I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
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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 a natural sceptic.
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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 did come from a pretty independent-minded family.
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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 was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.
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In one gallery they actually had a notice which said 'No Sketching.' How obnoxious! I said, 'How do you think these things got on the walls if there was no sketching?'
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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 think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.
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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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Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
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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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I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
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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.
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I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.
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Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?
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I've realized that I can do performances.