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Art Quotes by David Hockney
- All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
- 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'…
- 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…
- All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
- I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I believe my duty…
- There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.
- Until cubism, all art, all pictures, could be 'read' by anybody. If this hadn't been so, the Christian message wouldn't have been seen by peasants…
- Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.
- 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…
- 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…
- The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and…
- 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…
- The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
- Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
- What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be…
- People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.
- I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.
- Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these…
- Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very…
More Art Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov