David Hockney Quotes
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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 a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.
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I'm fed up with being bossed around.
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I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.
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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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Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
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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 went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.
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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.
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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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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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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 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 was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.
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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 generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.
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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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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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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.
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Britain is a very small country with a very large press.
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All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.
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I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.