"In one gallery they actually had a notice……" — David Hockney
"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 walls if there was no sketching?"
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170 Quotes by David Hockney
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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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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…
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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…
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It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had…
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I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
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Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by…
— Martha Beck
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types…
— David Byrne
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If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not…
— Marina Abramovic
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You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at…
— Marina Abramovic
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Appreciation of works of art requires organized effort and systematic study. Art appreciation can no more be absorbed by aimless…
— Albert Barnes
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I enjoy the oohs! and aahs! from the gallery when I hit my drives. But I'm getting pretty tired of…
— John Daly
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When I'm in a zone, I don't think about the shot or the wind or the distance or the gallery…
— Mark Calcavecchia
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The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial…
— Eckhart Tolle
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There are days when I can hear men tying their shoe laces in the gallery.
— Fuzzy Zoeller
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I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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