David Hockney Quotes - Page 3

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• It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

  David Hockney

  Fake People, Work, Believe

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

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• Faces are the most interesting things we see

  David Hockney

  Love, Life, Family

  David Hockney, Musée national d'art moderne (France) (1982). “David Hockney photographs”

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• Photography hankers after the condition of the neutral observer. But there can be no such things as a neutral observer. For something to be seen, it must be looked at by somebody, and any true and real depiction must be an account of the experience of that looking.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Real, Depiction

  Lawrence Weschler, David Hockney, Getty Foundation (2008). “True to life: twenty-five years of conversations with David Hockney”, Univ of California Pr

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• People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'

  David Hockney

  Drawing, People, Village

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• I'm fed up with being bossed around.

  David Hockney

  Feds, Fed Up

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• We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

  David Hockney

  Artist, Age, Way

  The Observer, June 09, 1991.

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• I do believe that painting can change the world.

  David Hockney

  Believe, World, Changing The World

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

  David Hockney

  Shapes, Matter, Canvas

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

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• People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.

  David Hockney

  People, Needs, Demand

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• Water colours are wet colours in water.

  David Hockney

  Water, Colour, Wet

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• I feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.

  David Hockney

  Said, Wells, Feels

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

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• I think we're in a very exciting time - visually, I think we are. I've not got a crystal ball. I'm not saying I know what the future is at all. In some ways I'm getting quite pessimistic about the future, but in other ways I think it might get better. We are moving into very big changes.

  David Hockney

  Moving, Thinking, Get Better

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

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• There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.

  David Hockney

  Art, Men, Chinese

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• I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.

  David Hockney

  Talking, Listening, Save Me

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• The 'how' has a great effect on what we see. To say that 'what we see' is more important than 'how we see it' is to think that 'how' has been settled and fixed. When you realize this is not the case, you realize that 'how' often affects 'what' we see.

  David Hockney

  Thinking, Important, Realizing

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• But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well.

  David Hockney

  Mean, Thinking, Make You Think

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

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• I've always been interested in space in pictures. I think my going deaf increased my spatial sense, because I can't get the direction of sound. I feel that I see space very clearly, and that's because I can't hear it. So it's a compensatory thing.

  David Hockney

  Thinking, Space, Sound

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

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• No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.

  David Hockney

  Education, Degrees, Certificates

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• Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.

  David Hockney

  Art, Future, Looks

  "David Hockney". Book by David Hockney, 1981.

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• Drawing takes time. A line has time in it

  David Hockney

  Drawing, Sketching, Lines

  www.thrillist.com.

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• But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Mean, Thinking

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• Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes.

  David Hockney

  Mean, Thinking, Painting

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

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• If you like music you like silence actually.

  David Hockney

  Silence, Ifs

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

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• In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.

  David Hockney

  Artist, Challenges, Want

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• Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only the sky but, because of its transparency, the depth of the water as well. If the water surface is almost still and there is a strong sun, then dancing lines with the colours of the spectrum appear everywhere.

  David Hockney

  Strong, Swimming, Men

  David Hockney (1978). “Travels with Pen, Pencil and Ink”

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