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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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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Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?
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I've realized that I can do performances.
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I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
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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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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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It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
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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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Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
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I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.
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I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.
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All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.
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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
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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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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'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 mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
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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.