QUOTES by David Hockney
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Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.
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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 mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
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Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'
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Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.
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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.
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As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.
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Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
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I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
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And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.
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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.'
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We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.
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I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.
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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.
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It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
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Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.
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Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
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Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.
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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'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.
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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.
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Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
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Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
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I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.
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