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    David Hockney

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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. ↗


    — David Hockney

    #any #degree #garden #i #kyoto

    I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually. ↗


    — David Hockney

    #actually #draw #drawing #i #like

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


    — David Hockney

    #like #paint #where

    I prefer living in color. ↗


    — David Hockney

    #i #living #prefer

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


    — David Hockney

    #drawing #how #i #i am #i see

    I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time. ↗


    — David Hockney

    #designs #fiddle #i #nights #obsessive

    I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it. ↗


    — David Hockney

    #cubism #developed #fully #i #i think

    I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever. ↗


    — David Hockney

    #clearly #ever #i #i am #i think

    I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose. ↗


    — David Hockney

    #artist #been #bring #drive #family

    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






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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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