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David Hockney

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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.


— David Hockney


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A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.


— David Hockney


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


— David Hockney


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All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.


— David Hockney


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And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.


— David Hockney


#another #corner #gogh #higher #higher level

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?


— David Hockney


#anyway #art #art world #bit #edge

As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.


— David Hockney


#celebrity #comedy #depiction #fashion #human

As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.


— David Hockney


#get #gets #harder #i #keep

Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.


— David Hockney


#being #believable #draw #means #people

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.


— David Hockney


#bus #design #does #good #move






About David Hockney

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Nikos Stangos) (1979) Thames and Hudson London ISBN 0-500-27163-1
Blue Guitar: Etchings by David Hockney Who Was Inspired by Wallace Stevens Who Was Inspired by Pablo Picasso (1977) Petersburg Press New York ISBN 0-902825-03-8
Photographs (1982) Petersburg Press New York ISBN 0-902825-15-1
Hockney's Photographs (1983) Arts Council of Great Britain London ISBN 0-7287-0382-3
Martha's Vineyard and other places: My Third Sketchbook from the Summer of 1982 (with Nikos Stangos) (1985) Thames and Hudson London ISBN 0-500-23446-9
David Hockney: Faces 1966–1984 (1987) Thames and Hudson London ISBN 0-500-27464-9
Hockney's Alphabet (with Stephen Spender) (1991) Random House London ISBN 0-679-41066-X
David Hockney: Some Very New Paintings (Intro by William Hardie) (1993) William Hardie Gallery Glasgow ISBN 1-872878-03-2
Off the Wall: A Collection of David Hockney's Posters 1987–94 (with Brian Baggott) (1994) Pavilion Books ISBN 1-85793-421-0
Hockney's Pictures (2006) Thames and Hudson London ISBN 0-500-28671-X
David Hockney: Poster Art (1995) Chronicle Books ISBN 0-8118-0915-3
That's the Way I See It (with Nikos Stangos) (1989) Thames and Hudson London ISBN 0-500-28085-1
Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the lost techniques of the Old Masters (2006) Thames and Hudson London ISBN 0-500-28638-8
Hockney On Art: Conversations with Paul Joyce (2008) Little Brown and Company New York ISBN 1-4087-0157-X
David Hockney's Dog Days (2011) Thames and Hudson London ISBN 0-500-28627-2
A Yorkshire Sketchbook (2011) Royal Academy of Arts London ISBN 1-907533-23-0


Further reading
Travels with Pen Pencil and Ink (1980) Tate Gallery London ISBN 0-905005-58-9
Weschler L. For the season 2012–2013 in the Vienna State Opera he designed on his iPad a large scale picture (176 sqm) as part of the exhibition series Safety Curtain conceived by museum in progress. Some pieces are landscapes such as Pearblossom Highway #2 others portraits such as Kasmin 1982 and My Mother Bolton Abbey 1982.

He is based in Bridlington East Riding of Yorkshire and Kensington London. David Hockney OM CH RA (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter draughtsman printmaker stage designer and photographer.

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