David Hockney Quotes

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David Hockney

Profession : Artist

Birth : July 9, 1937

On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.

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The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.

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Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.

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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.

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It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.

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I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.

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When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

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

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I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.

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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.

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I live wherever I happen to be.

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Britain is a very small country with a very large press.

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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?

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Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world!

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In my old age, I'll be in L.A.

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Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

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Anything simple always interests me.

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Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

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I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn.

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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.

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