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David Hockney Inspirational Quotes (124)

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In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time.
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It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.
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If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.
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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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Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes.
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In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.
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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
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...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.
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It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.
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I've realized that I can do performances.
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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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I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
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Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.
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I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.
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In fact, I'm a bit of a slob, but I've always said my excuse, I have a higher sense of order, I can see it where others can't. That's my excuse for slobbery, I must admit, but I think it's a good one.
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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
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The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.
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Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.
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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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No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may give you an insight to Picasso, but, after all, Picasso was there first.
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I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.
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I'm fed up with being bossed around.
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Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
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There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.
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