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Famous David Hockney Quotes
“It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.”
“Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.”
“Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.”
“Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.”
“Tragedy is a literary concept.”
“Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.”
“West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.”
“What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.”
“Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?”
“You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.”
“I was always interested in photography because it makes a picture.”
“I'm convinced that technology and art go together - and always have, for centuries.”
“Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.”
“Time is the great mystery anyway. And it's still the great mystery in the moving picture as well.”