David Hockney Quotes - Page 9

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• The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the west's greatest mistakes were the 'invention' of the external vanishing point and the internal combustion engine.

  David Hockney

  Mistake, Perspective, World

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• The pictures on the walls aren't like movies. They don't move, they don't talk, and they'll last longer. They will last longer.

  David Hockney

  Wall, Moving, Lasts

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• It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other people, but sometimes facility comes because one is more interested in looking at things, examining them, more interested in the visual world than other people are.

  David Hockney

  Artist, People, World

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

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• Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

  David Hockney

  Mean, Way, Kind

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

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• I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.

  David Hockney

  Space, West, Open Spaces

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• I don't value prizes of any sort.

  David Hockney

  Prize, Values

  "David Hockney joins Order of Merit" by Robert Booth, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2012.

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• If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.

  David Hockney

  Nature, Needs, Looks

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• Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want.

  David Hockney

  Style, Want, Use

  David Hockney, Manfred Sellink (1992). “David Hockney: grafiek”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• In my old age, I'll be in L.A.

  David Hockney

  Age, Old Age

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• 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

  Simple, Shocked

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

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• 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 it where others can't. That's my excuse for slobbery, I must admit, but I think it's a good one.

  David Hockney

  Thinking, Order, Facts

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

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• I thought using three cameras was a lot better than one, because you could see where you were going, where you'd been, and all kinds of things - more like life. I think photography has colored our vision. We're now in an area where it might break something. I think this is a time. I feel it. I don't know whether I'll be here long enough to experience it. I've no plans to leave yet.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Thinking, Long

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

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• Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Depiction, Representation

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

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• There's no-one up there in Northern Norway, food's terrible, but it's very, very beautiful to look at, if you've got eyes, and enjoy looking.

  David Hockney

  Beautiful, Eye, Looks

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

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• The problem is, photographic dyes and printing inks aren't as good as paint, actually.

  David Hockney

  Ink, Problem, Printing

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

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• I think we seem to remember things in still pictures. I never gave up on painting. When they said painting was dead, I just thought, Well, that's all about photography, and photography's not that interesting, and it's changing anyway.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Thinking, Interesting

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

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• Great claims are being made for the photograph as truth. We are showing you things, we show you the war. I say you can't actually. The camera can't.

  David Hockney

  War, Cameras, Photograph

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

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• We all know a mirror reflects us, if you look in it. If you move, the reflection moves. If you project from a mirror, meaning it will project an image, it's nothing to do with you. The world seen by nobody.

  David Hockney

  Moving, Reflection, Mirrors

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

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• 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?

  David Hockney

  Believe, Mean, Hands

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

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• The cameras are getting smaller, they're getting more versatile, and eventually, I'm sure you'll have a camera with lots and lots of things on it so you can alter the picture. You could alter perspective.

  David Hockney

  Perspective, Cameras, Versatile

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

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• The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.

  David Hockney

  Real, Perspective, Definitions

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

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• I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.

  David Hockney

  Art, Cameras

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

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• I think the ambiguity of similarity and difference is very powerful. It's the same scene in different times of year read across the grid, and, of course, different locations reading vertically. But you can get confused and lost in the series. You force the mind, which is always comparing and contrasting, to stumble ... That ambiguity is very powerful. One is getting lost and refinding oneself.

  David Hockney

  Powerful, Confused, Reading

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

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• I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.

  David Hockney

  Art, World, Interest

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

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• The editing of moving pictures is geared toward the single image. You'd have to edit things in new ways.

  David Hockney

  Moving, Editing, Way

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

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