David Hockney quotes - page 5

I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it. (David Hockney)
I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond. View quote
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I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time. View quote
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I've realized that I can do performances. View quote
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I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them. View quote
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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. View quote
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Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out. View quote
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I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity. View quote
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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent. View quote
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I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see. View quote
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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)
I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things. View quote
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When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.' View quote
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Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world! View quote
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The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough. View quote
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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. View quote
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In my old age, I'll be in L.A. View quote
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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light. View quote
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Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second. View quote
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My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else. View quote
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Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there? (David Hockney)
He [Hockney's father] hardly ever left Bradford. He was a member of CND and a socialist with a rather romantic and naive idea of what Soviet Russia was like, all cornfields and ballet. He would have gone mad for email because he was always sending letters to world leaders - Eisenhower, Mao, Stalin - telling them what was what. I think he imagined the Politburo would hold up his letter and say, "Hold everything, Kenneth Hockney has written again!" View quote
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