David Hockney
Artist
1937-07-09
Books by David Hockney
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David Hockney
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Secret knowledge
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A history of pictures
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Quotes by David Hockney
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In my old age, I'll be in L.A.
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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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Britain is a very small country with a very large press.
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I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.
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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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You must plan to be spontaneous.
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I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.
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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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Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
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I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.
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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.
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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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East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.
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West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
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I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.
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Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
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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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