David Hockney Quotes
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Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
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My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
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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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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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Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.
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I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.
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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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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 generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.
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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 moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
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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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All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.
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I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
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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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You must plan to be spontaneous.
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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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Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
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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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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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Britain is a very small country with a very large press.
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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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There are enough no smoking places now.
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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.