"Most artists work all the time, they do……" — David Hockney
"Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do."
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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.
- OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a…
- 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…
- Faces are the most interesting things we see
- I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever,
- I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.
- It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for…
- In one gallery they actually had a notice which said No Sketching. How obnoxious! I said, How do you think…
- In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are…
- It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had…
- I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not…