David Hockney Quotes
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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 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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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 value my friends.
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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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As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.
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Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
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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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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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You must plan to be spontaneous.
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I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.
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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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Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.
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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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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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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.
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There are enough no smoking places now.
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I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.
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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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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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Britain is a very small country with a very large press.
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You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.