Quotes by David Hockney

About David Hockney:

David Hockney is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer. He lives in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, and Kensington, London. Hockney maintains two residences in California, where he lived on and off for over 30 years: one in Nichols Canyon, Los Angeles, and an office and archives on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood.
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Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?

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California is always in my mind.

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I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

David Hockney

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.

David Hockney

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.

David Hockney

I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.

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I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn.

David Hockney

I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.

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I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.

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I paint what I like, when I like and where I like.

David Hockney

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.

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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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Tragedy is a literary concept.

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West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.

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My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.

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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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Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.

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Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world!

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I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.

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All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

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I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Author Bio

  • NameDavid Hockney
  • DescriptionBritish artist
  • BornJuly 9, 1937
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPainter; Photographer
  • WorksA Bigger Splash
  • AwardsPraemium Imperiale