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David Hockney Inspirational Quotes (124)

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When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
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I've always been interested in space in pictures. I think my going deaf increased my spatial sense, because I can't get the direction of sound. I feel that I see space very clearly, and that's because I can't hear it. So it's a compensatory thing.
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Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.
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Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
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There would be no bohemia without smoking.
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The pictures on the walls aren't like movies. They don't move, they don't talk, and they'll last longer. They will last longer.
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The editing of moving pictures is geared toward the single image. You'd have to edit things in new ways.
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I do believe that painting can change the world.
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I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.
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An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.
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You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.
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California is always in my mind.
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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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Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.
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Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about... I understand what he was doing: discovering what's there... to make the line meaningful, to find a linear solution.
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The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to the camera. That shouldn't necessarily be.
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I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.
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Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only the sky but, because of its transparency, the depth of the water as well. If the water surface is almost still and there is a strong sun, then dancing lines with the colours of the spectrum appear everywhere.
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I think probably something big can be done with cameras, I'm not saying, er, I'm saying chemical photography's finished, that means you can't have a Cartier Bresson again, you need never believe pictures.
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I was always interested in photography because it makes a picture.
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People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'
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I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more.
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The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.
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All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
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