David Hockney Quotes
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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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OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a rest from life. I don't…
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All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
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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'…
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Faces are the most interesting things we see
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I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever,
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I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.
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It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for a split second.
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In one gallery they actually had a notice which said No Sketching. How obnoxious! I said, How do you think these things got on the…
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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…
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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…
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I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would…
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I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well.
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I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
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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…
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Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want. The idea of the rigid style seemed…
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I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on one…
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We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way
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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood
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In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.
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