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David Hockney Inspirational Quotes (124)

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We don't all see the same way at all. Even if I'm sitting looking at you, there is always the memory of you as well. And a memory is now. So someone who's never met you before is seeing a different person. That's bound to be the case. We all see something different. I assume most people don't look very hard at anything.
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I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.
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You must plan to be spontaneous.
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I'm really only interested in technology that is about pictures. I'm interested in anything that makes a picture.
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I feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.
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The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.
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The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.
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What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw.
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It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.
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Water colours are wet colours in water.
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The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when people 'come out' it's quite an exciting moment. It means they become aware of their desires, and can deal with them in a remarkably honest way.
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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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The cameras are getting smaller, they're getting more versatile, and eventually, I'm sure you'll have a camera with lots and lots of things on it so you can alter the picture. You could alter perspective.
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No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes.
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If you like music you like silence actually.
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No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.
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I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.
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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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It takes a long time to make it simple.
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It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.
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A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.
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Faces are the most interesting things we see other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we go inside them - is the face. It tells all.
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I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
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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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