David Hockney Quotes
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I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.
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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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It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
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The choice is not between drugs and no drugs, but between illegal drugs and legal drugs. Until the 1920s drugs were legal, why not now? Lots of people are on drugs anyway - it is called medication.
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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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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
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On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.
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I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
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Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
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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'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 think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.
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You must plan to be spontaneous.
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I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.
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Britain is a very small country with a very large press.
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But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.
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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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I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.
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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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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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All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.
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There are enough no smoking places now.
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There's no doubt you smoke to calm yourself. I know I do. That's my decision about how I keep calm. I prefer that to Prozac. In fact I think it's healthier. I couldn't go to another New York party where they're all drinking water and on Prozac and telling you off for smoking.
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It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.