The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
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Quotes by David Hockney
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Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.
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.
Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.
You must plan to be spontaneous.
I'm fed up with being bossed around.
When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'
Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'
Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
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.
Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
There are enough no smoking places now.
I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.
Anything simple always interests me.
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.
When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.
It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.
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