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Them Quotes by David Hockney
- 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 sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm…
- People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's…
- Until I saw my drawings replayed on the iPad, I'd never seen myself draw. Someone watching me would be concentrating on the exact moment, but…
- Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about... I…
- 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…
- Faces are the most interesting things we see; other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we…
- 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…
- It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.
- I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.
- 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…
- I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight…
- Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees…
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- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle