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David Hockney Inspirational Quotes (124)

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There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does that's what counts.
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It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other people, but sometimes facility comes because one is more interested in looking at things, examining them, more interested in the visual world than other people are.
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West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
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But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.
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As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.
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If you are not playful you are not alive.
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Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
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I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
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I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because the very fact that the art is made seems to contradict despair.
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Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
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With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!
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In my old age, I'll be in L.A.
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I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.
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The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the west's greatest mistakes were the 'invention' of the external vanishing point and the internal combustion engine.
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Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.
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Time is the great mystery anyway. And it's still the great mystery in the moving picture as well.
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With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well.
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I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
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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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On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, Well, I don't have to talk much.
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The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.
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I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.
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Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
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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.
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