David Hockney Quotes

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• I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.

  David Hockney

  Beautiful, Believe, I Believe

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• If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.

  David Hockney

  Beautiful, Passion, Thinking

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• It takes a long time to make it simple.

  David Hockney

  Simple, Long, Long Time

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• What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

  David Hockney

  Art, People, Trying

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• If you are not playful you are not alive.

  David Hockney

  Alive, Ifs

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• The camera can't see space. It sees surfaces. People see space, which is much more interesting.

  David Hockney

  Space, People, Interesting

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• I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.

  David Hockney

  Morning, Flower, Draws

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• If we are to change our world view, images have to change.

  David Hockney

  Our World, Views, World View

  David Hockney, Paul Joyce (1988). “Hockney on photography: conversations with Paul Joyce”, Harmony

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• In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time.

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  Art, Mean, Divorce

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• Faces are the most interesting things we see; other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we go inside them - is the face. It tells all.

  David Hockney

  People, Interesting, Portraiture

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

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• You must plan to be spontaneous.

  David Hockney

  Planning, Spontaneous, Be Spontaneous

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• I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

  David Hockney

  Cameras, Kind, Computer

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• Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

  David Hockney

  Landscape, Paint, Worn

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• We don't all see the same way at all. Even if I'm sitting looking at you, there is always the memory of you as well. And a memory is now. So someone who's never met you before is seeing a different person. That's bound to be the case. We all see something different. I assume most people don't look very hard at anything.

  David Hockney

  Memories, People, Different

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

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• Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look

  David Hockney

  Teaching, People, Looks

  "Taking the fight to the dreary people". Interview with Jasper Gerard, The Sunday Times (London), October 2, 2005.

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• Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

  David Hockney

  Thrill, Landscape, Enjoyment

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• I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.

  David Hockney

  Teaching, Years, Drawing

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• I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I believe my duty as an artist is to overcome and alleviate the sterility of despair...New ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling... I do believe that painting can change the world.

  David Hockney

  Art, Believe, Mean

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• I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

  David Hockney

  Ordinary, Ordinary Things, Excited

  "Sunlight, beaches and boys" by Edmund White, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2006.

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• The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

  David Hockney

  Cheating, Art, Sake

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• I am constantly preoccupied with how to remove distance so that we can all come closer together, so that we can all begin to sense we are the same, we are one.

  David Hockney

  Distance, Humanity, Together

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• Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

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  Effective Listening, Listening

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• Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.

  David Hockney

  Laughing, Lungs

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• The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.

  David Hockney

  Children, Deep Within, Draws

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• I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Thinking, Dull

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

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