David Hockney Quotes
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Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'
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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 is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
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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'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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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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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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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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Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
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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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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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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
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I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.
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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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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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All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.
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You must plan to be spontaneous.
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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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Britain is a very small country with a very large press.
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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 don't value prizes of any sort.
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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 went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.