“Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.”
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Famous David Hockney Quotes
“The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.”
“Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.”
“Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.”
Source: David Hockney
“Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.”
“Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.”
“I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.”
“As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.”
“It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.”
“I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.”
“I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.”
“People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.”
“A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.”
“All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.”
“All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.”
“I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.”
“I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.”
“I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.”
“I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.”
“I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.”
“I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.”
“I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.”
“I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.”