David Hockney Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by David Hockney
David Hockney Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look ... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.
I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial.
I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.
How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't.
Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it.
An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.
I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
Great claims are being made for the photograph as truth. We are showing you things, we show you the war. I say you can't actually. The camera can't.
Once my hand has drawn something my eye has observed, I know it by heart, and I can draw it again without a model.
I'm really only interested in technology that is about pictures. I'm interested in anything that makes a picture.
Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.
What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw.
Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.
I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more.
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
There's no-one up there in Northern Norway , food's terrible, but it's very, very beautiful to look at, if you've got eyes, and enjoy looking.
The pictures on the walls aren't like movies. They don't move, they don't talk, and they'll last longer. They will last longer.
Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.
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.
I was never that interested in movies. I was interested in them as a thing, but I didn't want to make movies. I always wanted to draw and paint.
I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.
We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music.
I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.
I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking.