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David Hockney
English
Artist
About the author
We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.
David Hockney,
English
Artist
#Age
#Artist
Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.
David Hockney,
English
Artist
#Poetry
Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
David Hockney,
English
Artist
#Hollywood
What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.
David Hockney,
English
Artist
#Space
Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.
David Hockney,
English
Artist
You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.
David Hockney,
English
Artist
#History
#Photography
#Meaning
A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
David Hockney,
English
Artist
#Belief
#Light
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.
David Hockney,
English
Artist
#Love
Anything simple always interests me.
David Hockney,
English
Artist
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
David Hockney,
English
Artist
#Art
#Design
But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.
David Hockney,
English
Artist
#Time
#Years
#Photography
But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.
David Hockney,
English
Artist
#Now
#Meaning
But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well.
David Hockney,
English
Artist
#Thinking
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.
David Hockney,
English
Artist
#Will
#Garden
#Zen
I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
David Hockney,
English
Artist
#Doubt
There are enough no smoking places now.
David Hockney,
English
Artist
#Now
#Smoking
Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
David Hockney,
English
Artist
I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
David Hockney,
English
Artist
#Now
We grow small trying to be great.
David Hockney,
English
Artist
#Trying
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
David Hockney,
English
Artist
#Beauty
#Artist
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.
David Hockney,
English
Artist
#Mind
#Fact
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.
David Hockney,
English
Artist
#Sense
#Television
Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
David Hockney,
English
Artist
#Want
#Life
#Politicians
#Smoking
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.
David Hockney,
English
Artist
#People
#Art
#Deals
#Shadow
#Shadows
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.
David Hockney,
English
Artist
#Time
#Work
#Artists
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
David Hockney,
English
Artist
#Work
#Artist
#Advice