"No matter what the illusion created, it is……" — David Hockney

"No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes..."

— David Hockney

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170 Quotes by David Hockney

David Hockney has 170 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…

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More Canvas Quotes

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A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I have blond lashes.… — Amy Adams
A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is… — John Berger
The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible. — Pierre Bonnard
Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some… — Vanna Bonta
I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like… — Sophia Bush
The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People… — Nick Cave
It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas. — Paul Cezanne
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas. — Bob Hope
With a canvas I'm a group of seven. A migraine, take two Excedrin. — Drake
Canvas. J.C. Penney. $3.98. You like? — Pat Morita

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