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David Hockney


English
July 9, 1937
Artist
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I value my friends.


David Hockney
Tags: Friends Value
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The moment rules over everything.


David Hockney
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I live wherever I happen to be.


David Hockney
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Anything simple always interests me.


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


David Hockney
Tags: Up Grew Austerity
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I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn.


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


David Hockney
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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.


David Hockney
Tags: Up Say Could
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I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.


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


David Hockney
Tags: Me Because Too
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I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.


David Hockney
Tags: Morning Like Very
When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
David Hockney
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I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.


David Hockney
Tags: Time You Like
Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.
David Hockney
Tags: Because Way Kind
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I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.


David Hockney
Tags: Morning Get Them
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It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.


David Hockney
Tags: Good Work About
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
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
East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.
David Hockney
Tags: Like Just Lot
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.
David Hockney
Tags: You Because Out
I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.
David Hockney
I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close.
David Hockney
Tags: Like More Very