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Things Quotes by David Hockney
- Faces are the most interesting things we see
- 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…
- 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…
- In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.
- 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…
- 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…
- Faces are the most interesting things we see; other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we…
- The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to the camera. That…
- Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.
- Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
- I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.
- West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
- Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused…
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