David Hockney Quotes - Page 6

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• Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

  David Hockney

  Diploma, Painting, Painter

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• It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.

  David Hockney

  Tree, Remember, Sometimes

  "The Talented Mr Hockney". Interview with Nigel Farndale, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 15, 2001.

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• All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Certain, Painter

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• All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

  David Hockney

  Art, Matter, Painting

  David Hockney (1977). “David Hockney”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.

  David Hockney

  Spring, Space, Tree

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• I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.

  David Hockney

  Thinking, Style, Cubism

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• I thought the iPhone was great, but this takes it to a new level - simply because it's eight times the size of the iPhone, as big as a reasonably-sized sketchbook... Anyone who likes drawing and mark-making will like to explore new media.

  David Hockney

  Technology, Media, Drawing

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• As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.

  David Hockney

  Fashion, Usual, World

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• Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.

  David Hockney

  Beauty, Hate, Artist

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• Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

  David Hockney

  Moving, Race, Drawing

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• Time is the great mystery anyway. And it's still the great mystery in the moving picture as well.

  David Hockney

  Moving, Mystery, Wells

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• I love California; everything is so artificial.

  David Hockney

  Love, California, Artificial

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• I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.

  David Hockney

  Want, Rich, Thrilling

  "Hockney on ... politics, pleasure, and smoking in public places". Interview with Marion Finlay, FOREST Online, July 28, 2004.

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• There are enough no smoking places now.

  David Hockney

  Marijuana, Smoking, Enough

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• It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.

  David Hockney

  Remember, Difficult, Colour

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

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• Paint something every day.

  David Hockney

  Habit, Paint

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• It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.

  David Hockney

  Debate, Prison

  "Disposable cameras". Interview with Jonathan Jones, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2004.

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• I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.

  David Hockney

  Hate, Backgrounds, Background Music

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

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• The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.

  David Hockney

  Mean, Giving, Clue

  "Interview: “John Tusa Interviews David Hockney” (2004)". Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

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• What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.

  David Hockney

  Space, Bigs, Knows

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. 2004.

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• Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.

  David Hockney

  Hollywood, Bradford, Wells

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. 2004.

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• I usually only draw myself in down periods... I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's have a look in the mirror.' When you are alone and you look in a mirror you never put on a pleasing smile. Well, you don't, do you?

  David Hockney

  Thinking, Mirrors, Looks

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• A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.

  David Hockney

  Blow, People, Chance

  "Disposable cameras". Interview with Jonathan Jones, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2004.

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• On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, "Well, I don't have to talk much."

  David Hockney

  Doctors, Talking, Years

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw.

  David Hockney

  Artist, Able, Paint

  Peter Webb, David Hockney (1988). “Portrait of David Hockney”, London : Chatto & Windus

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