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David Hockney Quotes
A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light. - David Hockney Quotes
Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you dont have to look at it. - David Hockney Quotes
And then I went round the corner and theres a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but its not the level of Van Gogh. - David Hockney Quotes
Anything simple always interests me. - David Hockney Quotes
Art has to move you and design does not, unless its a good design for a bus. - David Hockney Quotes
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. - David Hockney Quotes
But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what youve taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldnt. - David Hockney Quotes
But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean youre using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well. - David Hockney Quotes
I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles. - David Hockney Quotes
I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually. - David Hockney Quotes
I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century. - David Hockney Quotes
Im a bit claustrophobic, I know that now. - David Hockney Quotes
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work. - David Hockney Quotes
Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do. - David Hockney Quotes
Shadows sometimes people dont see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny. - David Hockney Quotes
Smoking calms me down. Its enjoyable. I dont want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life. - David Hockney Quotes
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. - David Hockney Quotes
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent. - David Hockney Quotes
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know youre an artist. - David Hockney Quotes
There are enough no smoking places now. - David Hockney Quotes
We grow small trying to be great. - David Hockney Quotes
We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way. - David Hockney Quotes
Well you cant teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft. - David Hockney Quotes
Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood. - David Hockney Quotes
What I didnt know was I was deeply attracted to the big space. - David Hockney Quotes
Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting. - David Hockney Quotes
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. - David Hockney Quotes
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