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David Hockney

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I've realized that I can do performances.


— David Hockney


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In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.


— David Hockney


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In my old age, I'll be in L.A.


— David Hockney


#i #old #old age

It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.


— David Hockney


#because #bother #could #go #good

It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.


— David Hockney


#downloading #especially #going #images #prison

It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.


— David Hockney


#british #go #paint #see #something

Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.


— David Hockney


#laugh #lot #lungs

Like people, trees are all individuals.


— David Hockney


#like #people #trees

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.


— David Hockney


#listening #out #positive #put #you

Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.


— 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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