Alive Quote by David Hockney Download Open image “All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?” — David Hockney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alive Art Art is Contemporary Ifs
People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life. — David Elliott Copy Share Image
Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
For to be contemporary is not necessarily to be part of any movement, to be included in the official representations of national and international art. History shows that it may well be the opposite. It may be that it is the odd, the personal, the curious, the simply honest, that at this moment, when everyone looks to the extreme and… — Patrick Swift Copy Share
art is the most general condition of the Past in the present. ... Perhaps no work of art is art. It can only become… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself,… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Contemporary art for me is a real driver; it propels us into the future. And at the same time, it's what connects us to… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations. — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Art brings to life things that can seemingly be dead, and can put a fresh perspective on things that are living. It's so important… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
You can't believe any picture nowadays, if it's digital. You can't really believe. If you see me shaking hands with Mr. [Barack] Obama, it… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees,… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
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,… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
You always need a bit of low-tech.You always need a pair of scissors, it seems to me. You can do better things… The high-tech,… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
In fact, I'm a bit of a slob, but I've always said my excuse, I have a higher sense of order, I can see… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today. — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive. — James Haven Copy Share Image
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound. — Maureen Duffy Copy Share Image
I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
![“You can't believe any picture nowadays, if it's digital. You can't really believe. If you see me shaking hands with Mr. [Barack] Obama, it doesn't mean I ever met him, does it?” quote by David Hockney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/26e/david-hockney-1395_barack_you-can-t-believe-any-picture-nowadays-i_36556.jpg)
