David Hockney Quotes

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David Hockney

Profession : Artist

Birth : July 9, 1937

I value my friends.

David Hockney

I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.

David Hockney

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.

David Hockney

Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?

David Hockney

I've realized that I can do performances.

David Hockney

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

David Hockney

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

David Hockney

My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.

David Hockney

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

David Hockney

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.

David Hockney

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

David Hockney

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

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Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.

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Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

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I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.

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I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.

David Hockney

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

David Hockney

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

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I'm fed up with being bossed around.

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Like people, trees are all individuals.

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